Mike North is a Principal Staff Engineer and the technical lead for the developer platform at Stripe. He designs Stripe’s public APIs and defines their semantics and types. He also leads key TypeScript projects, including the Node.js SDK for Stripe, Stripe Shell, and Stripe Workbench.
Before Stripe, Mike worked as a Senior Staff Engineer at LinkedIn. He also served as the Chief Technical Officer at Levanto Financial. Earlier in his career, he worked as a user interface architect in the advertising and data division at Yahoo.
Mike plays an active role in the JavaScript community. He maintains and contributes to open-source libraries. His main focus areas include TypeScript, Ember.js, command-line tools, and progressive web apps.