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 results.

Sites

Github: https://github.com/mikemitchel

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mikemitchel

Home: https://www.mikemitchel.com

Skills

Javascript, NodeJS, ReactJS, Typescript, NextJS, GIT, PHP, Jest, Mocha, Chai, HTML5, CSS3, LESS, SCSS, PostGreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, jQuery, Storybook, Docker, AWS S3

Soft Skills

Strong Written and Verbal Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Stakeholder and Product Owner Liaison, Project Management, Team Mentoring, Code Review, Consulting, Agile Planning, Motivated Lifelong Learner

Education

Makersquare Full Stack JS Bootcamp

Austin, TX

60 hr/week intensive Web Development bootcamp that involved best practices fundamentals and building a greenfield project utilizing the YouTube API.

Experience

Nomadik Labs LLC - Ann Arbor, MI

Founder & Principal Consultant

June 2024 - Present

Full stack software consulting and development.

Project: CALI.org

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

Feature add and bug fix for A2J Viewer main hosting partner, implementing type protections for Authoring of legal aid Guided Interviews.

Project: BCBC.bike Shop App

Stack: Sveltekit, Typescript, CSS

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

Bitovi, Inc

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 maintaing work/life balance.

Delivered clean, readable, and maintainable code complete with Automated testing via Continuous Integration and Deployment while maintaining documentation and best practices for the codebase.

Project: KFC.com - KFC Order App

Stack: React, Typescript, Jest, NextJS, Storybook, GraphQL

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

Project: A2JAuthor.com - Access to Justice App Suite

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

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

Project: Epiqar.com - Surgical Sales and Collaboration Video Conference App

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

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

Project: CanJS.com - Open Source client-side JavaScript architectural libraries

Stack: Vanilla Javascript

Direct feature and bug-fix open source contributions to a full feature Javascript framework and set of tools.

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: Internal Employee Schedule App

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

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

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.