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Michael Phillips

@michaelphillips1

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Senior Web Developer and Technical Project Manager driving scalable API solutions.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek hands-on roles where I can lead API and full-stack delivery, improve reliability and performance, mentor engineers, and accelerate releases through automation and strong cross-functional collaboration.

I am a hands-on senior web developer and technical project manager with 10 years delivering full-stack features, scalable APIs, and on-call incident resolution across enterprise and startup environments. I specialize in React with TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, Python FastAPI, and PostgreSQL, and I focus on measurable performance, reliability, and developer velocity improvements.

Throughout my career I have led interface modernizations, API contract design, CI/CD standardization, and observability integrations that significantly reduced latency, defects, and deployment rollbacks. I’ve delivered results such as improving median request latency by 73%, increasing test coverage from 28% to 76%, and cutting duplicate order occurrences by 99% through robust backend fixes.

I mentor teams, build shared component libraries, and implement infrastructure and automation (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions) to accelerate releases while maintaining accessibility and security standards like WCAG AA and OAuth2/JWT. I bring a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to product and platform delivery.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Project Manager

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Blue Pigeon

Apr 2024 - Present (1 year 9 months)

Led interface modernization and hands-on technical work using Next.js and Node.js/Express, reducing component churn 56% and page load time 42% across 12 enterprise applications while improving median API latency by 73% via Redis caching and PostgreSQL tuning.

Next.js React TypeScript Node Express PostgreSQL Redis Jest Cypress

Co-Founder & Head of Product

Stealth AI, Inc

Dec 2023 - Apr 2024 (4 months)

Built responsive Next.js/React prototypes and serverless AWS Lambda back ends, increasing prototype conversion signals 27% and supporting 150K monthly catalog queries with median API response under 120ms while reducing duplicate orders by 99% through idempotent endpoints and Celery tasks.

Next.js React TypeScript AWS Lambda fastAPI PostgreSQL Redis Celery Jest

Project Manager

Salesforce

Jan 2018 - Nov 2023 (5 years 10 months)

Developed enterprise REST and GraphQL APIs and Next.js data visualizations, cutting average API response time 54% and enabling sub-second filtering across 1.2M records while improving merge-to-deploy velocity 37% via CI/CD and contract testing.

Python fastAPI Next.js PostgreSQL Elasticsearch Jenkins GitHub Actions

Full Stack Developer

Tinder

Jun 2015 - Jan 2018 (2 years 7 months)

Built React components and Node.js/Express endpoints for early product prototypes, improving prototype iteration speed 35%, reducing heavy-query costs 41%, and increasing new-user activation 28% through metrics-driven A/B testing.