$ finger michael
MICHAEL
SORHAINDO
Senior software engineer. Ships TypeScript by day, bothers synths by night.
$ whoami
whoami
Senior Software Engineer at Elsevier. I build SciVal, lately the AI bits.
Before that: React mobile apps for EA and Twitch at Ex Machina, four years of JavaScript at Brandwatch, and Flash-to-HTML5 at Ash Gaming.
Off the clock: electronic music as MyyQii. Also church organ. Yes, really.
$ git log --oneline career
- a2022 HEAD Senior SWE @ Elsevier · SciVal, AI
- e2020 SWE @ Elsevier
- x2018 Frontend @ Ex Machina · React mobile for EA, Twitch
- b2014 JavaScript @ Brandwatch
- c2014 BSc CS, Brighton (First) · MSc, Sussex
- g2010 Ash Gaming · localisation dev → mobile/HTML5 dev
- deadbee squash! everything before the code (non-programming). force-pushed. no reflog. don't ask.
"Always keen to learn new things."
Daniel Triggs, my manager, 2015 · // still true
$ ls ~/projects --sort=interesting
projects
| perm | name | what it does | lang | ★ / last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| drwxr-xr-x | reddit-mcp/ | Read-only Reddit MCP server on a Cloudflare Worker. Never holds your token. | TypeScript | ★0 · 2026-08 |
| drwxr-xr-x | myyqii-site/ | Landing page for MyyQii. No build step, no regrets. | JavaScript | ★0 · 2026-09 |
| drwxr-xr-x | codex-session-viewer/ | Reads Codex session logs. See what the robot was thinking. | TypeScript | ★0 · 2025-08 |
| drwxr-xr-x | pino-benchmark/ | Pino vs Winston. Loggers, fighting. | JavaScript | ★0 · 2025-02 |
| drwxr-xr-x | toisu/ | Koa-ish micro-framework for promise middleware. | JavaScript | ★0 · 2016 |
| drwxr-xr-x | functional-parser/ | One parser, two languages: JavaScript and Haskell. | HTML | ★2 · 2017 |
| -rwxr--r-- | FruitMachine/ | HTML5 slot machine. Most-starred repo. Gambling sells. | JavaScript | ★4 · 2013 |
› 94 public repos. ls -R github.com/pmsorhaindo
$ ./play myyqii --preview
incoming signal
COMING SOON
MyyQii
Electronic music. Patched, sequenced, occasionally rescued.
rig: Ableton · Eurorack modular · Hydrasynth · Elektron Octatrack
$ cat ~/.contact