About me

Michael grinning on a couch, holding a very relaxed fluffy dog
I'm the one with the glasses.

I'm fascinated by workflows — specifically by fixing them. At every job I've had, I end up noticing people losing time to mundane, repetitive work, and I can't leave it alone, so I build something that fixes it. A sales job produced an app. An internship produced a case-tracking system. A coaching company ended up with its own platform.

Since June 2024 I've been the Full-Stack Developer & Technical Director at The Paradox Process — in practice, a one-person creative and engineering department. Before that I spent three years freelancing in 3D: 62 projects, none late. I studied political science at Baruch and graduated summa cum laude.

Want to work together? Email me.

Experience

Full-Stack Developer & Technical Director — The Paradox Process

New York, NY · June 2024 — present

  • Designed, built, and deployed a full-stack Next.js platform replacing two enterprise SaaS products (Thinkific and Keap), consolidating course delivery, CRM, payments, email automation, and content management.
  • Migrated all user accounts, enrollment records, and course progress from legacy systems with zero data loss.
  • Built Anpa, the page-composer CRM the company now runs on: 29 section presets, a WCAG-guaranteed theme engine, autosave with conflict detection, and immutable published snapshots.
  • Revived the dormant YouTube channel with a Shorts-first strategy (44.8K views, +81 subscribers, all organic) and ran Instagram on the same play (15K+ views).
  • Built a tunable AI coaching application (Vercel AI SDK) with a human-in-the-loop feedback system that lets non-technical practitioners shape the AI's output style.
  • Led SEO and social content strategy; managed all third-party integrations.

Retail Sales Specialist — Charter Communications

New York, NY · February 2024 — June 2024

  • Consistently ranked among the top sales performers in the store.
  • Received a perfect 100% evaluation from a secret shopper during training.
  • Identified a workflow inefficiency and independently built an application to fix it, presented to management for team-wide use.

Freelance 3D Generalist

Remote · June 2020 — June 2023

  • Completed 62 projects with a 100% on-time delivery rate and a 5-star rating throughout.
  • Maintained 15+ repeat clients across multiple time zones and countries.
  • Delivered complex work including full music-video productions on 5-day average turnarounds.

Constituent Services Intern — Office of Council Member Keith Powers

New York, NY · March 2022 — June 2022

  • Organized and processed 200+ constituent responses for budget planning.
  • Built a custom case-tracking tool with Google Apps Script to standardize data entry across employee workflows.

Crew Member — Trader Joe's

New York, NY · July 2019 — March 2020

  • Perfect scores on employee performance review in a fast-paced retail environment.

Education

B.A. Political Science — CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College

New York, NY · 2017 — 2023 · summa cum laude

Skills

React · Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind · PostgreSQL · Stripe · Blender · React Three Fiber · Python · Adobe Creative Suite · SEO · video editing · social strategy & reporting