Mike Mitchel

Principal Consultant | Full Stack Engineer
Highly skilled Principal Consultant & Full Stack Engineer 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

Dwell Fractional LLC

New Buffalo, MI

Co-Founder | Chief Technical Officer | Chief of Sales

(Dec 2024 - Present)
Fractional co-owernship of luxury vacations homes.

Project

Create an automated tool to generate a calendar for a fractional vacation home, based on a complex set of rotating rules

Stack

Svelte, Typescript, CSS3, HTML5

Project

Create an engaging media presence to educate and close sales with local real estate agents and clients, in addition to face-to-face sales and marketing

Stack

Generative AI, Social Media, Print and Web Marketing

Nomadik Labs LLC

Ann Arbor, MI

Founder | Principal Consultant | Full Stack Engineer

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

Project

Authoring Guideline Feature: Added type-safe authoring controls (e.g., form validation, templating safeguards) to improve document assembly reliability. Stack: CanJS, Node.js, PHP.

Stack

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

Project

Delivered mobile-first, responsive design with TypeScript and modern UI/UX best practices.

Stack

Sveltekit, Typescript, CSS

Sabbatical / Career Break

Pacific NW

Health & Well-Being | Freelance

(Dec 2022 - Sept 2023)
Focus on personal well-being, renewed creative energy, and sharpened mission alignment. Can't recommend this practice enough, and love to talk about it.

Bitovi, Inc

Chicago, IL (remote)

Principal Consultant | Full Stack Engineer

(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

JavaScript (CanJS, SvelteKit, TypeScript)
NodeJS
PHP
GIT
HTML5
CSS3
Generative AI Tools
Jest
CI/CD
ReactJS
jQuery
PostGreSQL
MySQL
NextJS
MongoDB
Mocha
Chai
LESS
SCSS
Github Actions
Storybook
Docker
AWS S3

Soft Skills

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