# Michael Darmousseh

> Michael Darmousseh is a co-founder and distinguished engineer at Extend whose career runs from FedEx Office and early Ruby and Node development through Estate Assist, DocuSign, API-first commerce infrastructure, and open-source AI agent tools. His public comments reveal an engineer unusually pleased to retire his own code, a philosophy of living software that connects the systems he helped build at Extend with his newer Model Context Protocol experiments.

- **Role:** Founder and Distinguished Engineer at Extend
- **Organizations:** Extend, DocuSign, Estate Assist, Milyoni, FedEx Office
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree; double major in Mathematics and Computer Science, with an honors thesis focused on artificial intelligence, California State University, Stanislaus
- **Known for:** Co-founded Extend in February 2019 and helped establish its API-first technical platform., Helped Extend adopt serverless architecture and infrastructure as code from its earliest days., Named co-inventor on U.S. patent grant 12,154,164 for product catalog mapping, protection-plan offer presentation, and service lifecycle management.

## Career timeline

- **2005-2006** — Worked as a production operator at FedEx Office.
- **2007-2009** — Worked as a lead project coordinator at FedEx Office while completing his degree.
- **2009** — Completed a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science at California State University, Stanislaus; his honors thesis focused on artificial intelligence.
- **2012-2014** — Worked at Milyoni, including as lead developer using Ruby on Rails and Node.
- **2014-2015** — Served as lead software developer at Estate Assist, a digital service for organizing sensitive personal and financial information.
- **2015** — Moved to DocuSign after its acquisition of Estate Assist.
- **2015-2019** — Held engineering manager and senior software engineering manager roles at DocuSign.
- **2019** — Co-founded Extend with Woodrow Levin, Joe Moss, and Rohan Shah to modernize product protection through APIs and commerce integrations.
- **2020** — Extend announced a $40 million Series B 19 months after launch; the company said it planned to hire more than 120 people, with emphasis on engineering, product, and design.
- **2023** — Named as a co-inventor on a published Extend patent application covering product catalog integration and dynamic protection-plan offers.
- **2024-2026** — Published open-source AI agent and Model Context Protocol projects, including Hataraku, Chess MCP, Murl, and Infer.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Extend in February 2019 and helped establish its API-first technical platform.
- Helped Extend adopt serverless architecture and infrastructure as code from its earliest days.
- Named co-inventor on U.S. patent grant 12,154,164 for product catalog mapping, protection-plan offer presentation, and service lifecycle management.
- Built engineering workflows in which shared Postman collections supported testing across teams and with merchant customers.
- Maintains public open-source projects focused on AI agents and the Model Context Protocol.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — His GitHub profile continued to identify him as an Extend technical co-founder and showed active public work across AI agent and MCP projects.
- **2025-03** — A continuation patent application covering product catalog integration and protection offers was published with Darmousseh listed as a co-inventor.
- **2024-12** — His Chess MCP server was released publicly as part of his growing set of Model Context Protocol tools.

## Links

- Website: https://extend.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldarmousseh
- GitHub: https://github.com/turlockmike

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Last updated: 2026-09-27