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Michael McShinsky

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Senior Software Engineer — Developer tools, APIs, reliable systems, practical automation.
University of Utah Adjunct Instructor (CS) • Former institutional crypto/fintech SDK lead.

🎯 What I'm Shipping Now

Project Status Description
Slipstream UI 🚧 Active AI-first React component library with machine-readable manifests, MCP server, and shadcn-compatible registry
Utah Esports 🚧 Active Live tournament/community directory for Utah gamers — freshness-enforced, provenance-tracked (utahesports.net)
react-starter ✅ Stable Production-ready Vite + React 19 + Tailwind 4 + TanStack Query + Vitest + Storybook starter
surgejs-sdk ✅ Stable Typed, zero-runtime-dep TypeScript SDK for Surge.sh with streaming publish & upload dedupe

🧠 Architecture Principles

These guide every project I build. Full case studies on mcshinsky.net/work.

  • Simplicity as a constraint — Prefer simple solutions that are easy to operate and change
  • Explicit assumptions — Make tradeoffs visible; document why, not just what
  • Reliability as product — Security, observability, and graceful degradation are features, not afterthoughts
  • Automation with guardrails — Automate repetitive work when the result is safer and clearer
  • Outcomes over complexity — Optimize for useful outcomes, not unnecessary cleverness

📦 Selected Repositories

Production-Ready Libraries & SDKs

Repo Stars npm Description
surgejs-sdk Stars npm dl Complete typed Surge.sh API client + streaming publisher with upload dedupe, now with a CLI and a GitHub Action
slipstream-ui Stars npm dl AI-native component library: 8 published packages, COMPONENT_MANIFEST specs, MCP server, shadcn registry, live docs at slipstreamui.com

Starters & Reference Implementations

Repo Stars Description
react-starter Stars Opinionated React 19 starter: feature folders, Zod env, lazy routes, error boundaries
express-react-passport-jwt Stars Mature JWT auth: httpOnly cookies, refresh rotation, Zod, helmet, Supertest
adonis-react-vite Stars Modern Adonis 6 + Vite + React 19 + Tailwind fullstack starter

Domain Products

Repo Stars Description
utah-esports Stars Turborepo: Next.js 15, Discord bot, Drizzle/PostGIS, start.gg sync, freshness/provenance

🔗 Cross-Linked Technical Writing

Platform Focus
mcshinsky.net/work Architecture case studies, deep-dives, decision records
mcshinsky.net/articles Technical tutorials, patterns, tooling guides
DEV Community Practical how-tos, library announcements, DX writeups
Stack Overflow 3.5k+ answers on React, TypeScript, Node, APIs

🤝 How to Evaluate My Work

  1. Start with the case studies → mcshinsky.net/work — real project retrospectives with metrics
  2. Clone a starter → react-starter or express-react-passport-jwt — run npm run dev in 2 minutes
  3. Read the architecture decisions — Each repo has a DECISIONS.md or "Architecture" section explaining why
  4. Check the CI — All active repos have lint, typecheck, test, and build gates on every PR

Signals you can check without trusting me

Signal Where
Published packages 8 under @slipstream-ui/*, plus surgejs-sdk
Real installs @slipstream-ui/core and surgejs-sdk each report monthly download counts on npm
Release discipline slipstream-ui CI runs 20 gates, including manifest validation and generated-artifact drift checks
Live products utahesports.net, slipstreamui.com/docs, react-starter.mcshinsky.net

🧭 What I'm Looking For

  • Collaborators on slipstream-ui — component authors, docs, and anyone running it with a coding agent
  • Design partners for developer tools: SDKs, deploy pipelines, internal platforms
  • Consulting on developer experience, API design, and CI/CD reliability

If any of that matches what you need, get in touch.

🛠 Tools & Technologies

TypeScript React 19 Node.js Vite Next.js 15 Tailwind CSS 4 TanStack Query Drizzle ORM PostgreSQL PostGIS Vitest Storybook ESLint 9 Turborepo Docker GitHub Actions

📫 Connect

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  1. slipstream-ui slipstream-ui Public

    React component library built with Tailwind CSS, TypeScript, and Storybook

    TypeScript 3

  2. react-starter react-starter Public

    Vite + React 19 + TypeScript starter with Tailwind CSS, TanStack Query, Vitest, and Storybook

    TypeScript 39 13

  3. express-react-passport-jwt express-react-passport-jwt Public

    Full-stack JWT auth reference: httpOnly cookies, refresh-token rotation, layered Express + React (TypeScript)

    TypeScript 3 2

  4. surgejs-sdk surgejs-sdk Public

    Typed, zero-dependency TypeScript client for the Surge.sh API

    TypeScript 2 1

  5. adonis-react-vite adonis-react-vite Public

    AdonisJS 6 + Vite + React 19 fullstack starter with TypeScript throughout

    TypeScript

  6. satoshilabs/slips satoshilabs/slips Public

    SatoshiLabs Improvement Proposals

    Markdown 1.7k 1.9k