Mike Mitchel

Principal Consultant & Senior Software Developer
Highly skilled Principal Consultant & Senior Developer with 10 years experience of following a passion for product discovery, project planning, team management, and crafting robust & easy to maintain code that delivers exceptional value.

Experience

Nomadik Labs LLC

Ann Arbor, MI

Founder & Principal Consultant

(Sep 2023 - Present)
Full stack software consulting and development.

Project

Added Authoring feature to guide best authoring practices, while implementing type protections to prevent errors during document assembly.

Stack

CanJS, NodeJS, PHP, Bootstrap, jQuery, AMP stack

Project

Greenfield Sveltekit Full Stack project to create an improved Shop App for bike co-op non-profit, with focus on mobile first responsive design and usability.

Stack

Sveltekit, Typescript, CSS

Career Break

Pacific NW

Health & Well-Being / Freelance

(Dec 2022 - Sept 2023)
I took a voluntary ~8-month sabbatical to focus on family and self and cannot recommend this practice enough. Want to talk about my experience? Please feel free to shoot me a message as I would love to chat about it.

Bitovi, Inc

Chicago, IL (remote)

Principal Consultant & Senior Developer

(June 2016 - Dec 2022)
Guided successful projects as the Principal Consultant for main client stakeholders, delivering high value software and tooling. Managed client and consultant team members as a Senior Developer Team Lead, providing code reviews, best code practices mentorship, career development training, and guidance on maintaining work/life balance.

Project

KFC customer order app, Refactored the entire web app, improving test coverage by 30%.

Stack

React, Typescript, Jest, NextJS, Storybook, GraphQL

Project

Multi-repo Access to Justice application with nearly 1 million runs per year, Full stack development across a suite of 3 applications, Authoring Tool, Viewing Tool, and Document Assembly Tool

Stack

CanJS, NodeJS, PHP, Bootstrap, jQuery, AMP stack

Project

Medical video conference app for remote surgery and medical sales, Added high-quality snapshot feature allowing doctors to capture key moments including on-screen annotations

Stack

CanJS, NodeJS, AWS S3, Amazon SQS, HTML5 Video/Audio/Canvas

Project

Direct feature and bug-fix open source contributions to a full feature Javascript framework and set of tools including CanJS, DoneJS, StealJS and testing stack.

Stack

Javascript, HTML, DOM

MakerSquare (now Galvanize)

Austin, TX

Student Full Stack Bootcamp Instructor

(Feb 2016 - May 2016)
Assistant Instructor to 2 boot camp cohorts, teaching new devs the fundamentals of Full Stack Development.

Project

Staffing app to record and manage student instructor hours, duties, and weekly schedule and responsibilities.

Stack

Mithril JS (https://mithril.js.org/)

Lab9 Inc - Chicago, IL

Founder & Principal Consultant

(June 2009 - June 2016)
Built a successful IT consulting business by delivering exceptional value through superior System Administration, Networking, and HelpDesk services, creating a strong referral pipeline. Sold the client list to pursue web development.

Tech Skills

Typescript
Javascript
PHP
GIT
HTML5
CSS3
Jest
NodeJS
CI/CD
ReactJS
jQuery
PostGreSQL
MySQL
NextJS
MongoDB
Mocha
Chai
LESS
SCSS
Github Actions
Storybook
Docker
AWS S3

Soft Skills

Consulting
Code Review
Mentoring
Leadership
Presentation
Writing
Product Owner
Project Management
Agile Development
Sprint Planning
Lifelong Learner