Michael Tromba
Michael Tromba

About

Michael Tromba - Entrepreneur and Engineer

TLDR

  • In 2016, I launched a web games platform, and scaled it to over 2 million users/mo.

  • Since then, I’ve architected, designed, and implemented >30 software applications.

  • As of 2024, my projects have collectively reached over 27 million users.

Some things I've done

  • Building UXCanvas.ai - The AI-powered UI/UX Design & Prototyping Agent. Go from idea to interactive, sharable prototype in minutes. Export to code or Figma for further refinement.

  • Built Toolable.ai - Generate and share your own AI tools in seconds.

  • Built JobRadar.ai - The world's most powerful AI-powered job search engine. It scrapes 100k's of jobs from the web and uses AI to enrich them with 100+ attributes that can be filtered against.

  • WIP ApplyFox.ai - Upload your resume and let AI automatically find and apply to 100's of jobs for you.

  • Architected, designed, and developed an email marketing SaaS platform with 15+ features including an advanced WYSIWYG editor, email performance analytics, embeddable sign-up forms, and more - 52x Grow

  • Independently developed and scaled a web application to over 2M users/mo - iogames.space

  • Built the Theme Studio for VS Code - It reached #1 on Hacker News and continues to delight thousands of software developers each month. I replicated the entire VS Code interface with plain-old CSS (and lots of coffee).

  • Helped over 3,000,000+ software engineers research and discover great open source resources through various websites I've created.

  • Trained hundreds of developers on advanced usage of VS Code through an online course, with an average 4.7 stars rating.

  • Designed the product, recruited engineers, and managed the engineering of ListCleanser.com - the accurate & affordable email verification SaaS platform.

  • Designed the product & managed engineering of ApplyFox.ai - the AI that applies to jobs for you.

Skills & tech

  • Advanced: TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue.js, Nuxt, Next.js, React.js, Node.js, Deno, HTML, CSS, TailwindCSS, Git, VS Code, tRPC, Figma, GPT-4o (LLM prompt engineering & APIs)

  • Experience with: SQL, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, async message queues & distributed processing, Docker, Docker Compose, Nginx, React.js, Next.js, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, Python, jQuery, WebSockets, Socket.io, Stripe Billing, Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK, Electron, Prettier, ESLint, Sass/SCSS

  • Infrastructure & platforms: AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, Vercel, Firebase, Netlify, Redis Cloud, MongoDB Cloud, Heroku, Upstash, Fly.io, Supabase, PlanetScale, FaunaDB, GitHub, OpenAI

  • Skills: Frontend & backend development, product design & end-to-end engineering management, software architecture, project research/planning/management, database modeling & migration, API design & development, cloud system design, advanced web scraping, browser automation, email development & deliverability, billing systems, LLM prompt engineering, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, unit testing, UI/UX design, chrome extension development, real-time systems development, WebSockets, SEO