Michael Squires
Staff Engineer at Headlight. 2nd degree black belt and instructor, ATA Songahm Taekwondo. Multiple-time Southeast District champion. Home labber and automater. Atlanta, GA.
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Staff Engineer at Headlight. 2nd degree black belt and instructor, ATA Songahm Taekwondo. Multiple-time Southeast District champion. Home labber and automater. Atlanta, GA.
Owning the technical direction of systems that have to be right the first time. Building with the team at Headlight Labs.
Where I work today. Staff Engineer — architecture, platform, and the unglamorous parts that keep everything else standing.
Visit Headlight →I've spent my career as the engineer teams hand the hard, load-bearing problems to — platform, infrastructure, the systems everything else depends on. Principal roles at Global Worldwide and KIXEYE; Staff Engineer at Headlight today.
Off the clock the same instinct shows up everywhere: a home lab that manages and serves my media library on its own, and a martial art built on doing one form a thousand times until it's clean — then testing it in the ring.
Training, instructing, and competing under the ATA at Karate Atlanta in Johns Creek. Songahm means "pine tree and rock" — evergreen growth, and a base that doesn't move. That's the standard I hold on the mat, in the ring, and everywhere else.
Technical direction across platform and product. Now.
Core systems and engineering leadership across the studio's live titles.
Infrastructure and platform for real-time multiplayer strategy games at scale.
API management platform — the plumbing developers built on.
Web platform engineering for a global media network.
Built and ran an enthusiast community from the ground up.
Two decades of libraries people actually use — mostly around lights, notifications, and making PHP and Node do things faster. All on github.com/sqmk.