About Me

Hi, I'm Micah! I'm a full-stack engineer based in Portland, OR.

I'm currently heading up all things front-end at Redwood Materials. I just started in November 2022 and am very excited to be working in green tech with a lot of talented people!

Current Projects

When I'm not taking my cats for a walk, I'm often coding or thinking about one of these things:

• Writing a tiny library that enables declarative conditional logic in React Hook Forms.

• Experimenting with all sorts of solutions to identifying ads in podcasts
  Update: check out AdblockPodcast.com

• Learning how to be a dad.

• I spoke at the 2021 PWA Summit and try and stay up-to-date on all things PWAs

Feel free to shoot me an email if you'd like to work on something together!
GitHub | Email

Past Projects

• Playing around with object detection using Tensorflow on a the Raspberry Pi B+.
• A Preact-based WordPress plugin for cleaner database searches.
• A silly, social webapp called Any Mammal's Milk first written in Svelte then migrated to React + Firebase.

BeFunky

Before Redwood, I worked at BeFunky for 5 years (2017 - 2022) on their a popular Photo Editing and Graphic Design platform.

I was initially brought on to help the team finish migrating their Flash app to web tech (WebGL canvas + web components). It took many months, but we did launch a desktop-oriented webapp, then did a complete overhaul to make it work well on mobile as well, and finally distributed the webapp across all platforms as an installable PWA. Along the way, I got to work on all sorts of fun stuff:

• Saving assets & user settings in IndexedDB
• Getting the app to work offline and with low-connectivity (using Workbox)
• Building web components using Haunted & Lit-HTML for templating
• Proxying all our backend services through Fastly so we could serve them from the same origin (avoiding DNS lookups)
• Trying my darnest to keep the site performant even as we were shipping more and more features!

Goshen College

From 2014 - 2017 I headed up design and development of the Goshen College website, a large WordPress multisite, doing templating in Twig and logic in PHP and JavaScript (mostly ES5). Much of my work revolved around user experience design, web performance, SEO, improving data quality in our web form → Marketo → Salesforce funnel, and training web editors across campus.

• Homepage (archive.org)
• Music Program (archive.org)
• Study-Service Term (archive.org)

The land of milk and honey

Portland's alright (-; but if you're ever in Goshen, Indiana be sure to check out:

• Goshen Community Contra Dancing - there's dancing the first Saturday of every month
• Goshen Brewing Company - the local brewery
• Open Table Mennonite Fellowship - a Mennonite house church
• And of course, Goshen College