Michael Lamb

A Software Shepherd

Experience

Next Glass | Remote

Full Stack Developer | May 2022-July 2026
  • Built features, refactored code, fixed bugs, and upgraded dependencies across two monolith Rails applications daily.
  • Used AI tooling to accelerate feature development and verification without sacrificing code quality.
  • Led dozens of projects from start to finish, delivering features on schedule. Partnered closely with the product team to help shape and scope priorities.
  • Advanced and maintained QuickBooks integrations for 350+ breweries.
  • Represented our product in cross team design meetings and built an API allowing another team to create orders and organizations in our system.
  • Sustained 93%+ test coverage using RSpec and Capybara.
  • Monitored and debugged production issues using New Relic, Sentry, and other tools. Rotated on-call for two weeks out of every four.
  • Resolved support queue bugs within a 24 hour window and built self-serve tools for the support team, reducing recurring issues from 10+ per week to 1 or 2.
  • Mentored junior developers through bi-weekly pairing sessions. Participated in book clubs and tech talks to share learnings across the organization.

Safe Access | Remote

Full Stack Developer | Mar 2020-May 2022
  • Ruby on Rails environments.
  • Founding team member that helped grow Safe Access to 1,000,000+ check-ins from 170,000+ users to date.
  • Architected and built core functionality to attract first customers.
  • Challenges:
    • Allowing users to create their own check in questionnaires.
    • The questions could be different types from true/false to multiple choice, file upload, normal input fields.
    • Had to store and validate question answeres for multiple types enfocing presence and choosen values.
  • Achieved sub 200ms page loads and 90%+ test coverage.

Retrolux | Boise, Idaho

Full Stack Developer | May 2018-May 2022
  • Ruby on Rails and React Native environments.
  • Retrolux is a monolith that helps the lighting industry perform quicker enegy audits.
  • I designed and built a revamp to our calculations engine. Adding in line items. This gives our users complete control over their proposal costs.
  • Challenges:
    • Implementing a checksum auto update and calculate user changes.
    • And creating a Single Page App feel to the line item experience.
  • Created a mapping feature where a user can drag and drop pins indicating locations on a building floor plan. This was our users most requested feature for over 1.5 years.
  • Challenges:
    • Dragging the pins over a specific interactive space.
    • Mimicking the touch functionality on both web and mobile experiences.
    • Building out the sync layer to handle all of the additional changes.

Boise CodeWorks | Boise, Idaho

Immersive Full-stack Grad | Jan 2018-April 2018
  • An immersive developer school. Around 520 hours of programming & learning industry best practices.
  • Created 4 full-stack applications utilizing multiple programming languages & frameworks - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vue.js, Node.js, MongoDB, C#, & .NET.

Verandah Sportswear | Boise, Idaho

Graphic Designer | Oct 2016-June 2017 (temp position)
  • Created packaging, designed apparel, communicated art details to manufacturers, edited E-commerce websites, and provided client presentations.

SurveyMonkey | Portland, Oregon

Account Manager/Renewals | Nov 2014-May 2016
  • Joined SurveyMonkey right after they acquired FluidSurveys.
  • Maintained relationships with all sales assisted FluidSurveys customers - $4.3 million in yearly revenue.
  • Managed customer accounts, renewed yearly subscriptions, and upsold licenses.
  • Retained a less than 10% churn rate.
  • Worked daily with our legal, finance, and sales operation teams to complete contracts, invoice customers, forecast, and track growth.

Sweatshorts.co | Portland, Oregon

Content Creator/SEO/Owner | 2014-present
  • Sweatshorts.co is a niche clothing website that utilizes search engine optimization (SEO) to drive traffic and sales.
  • Taught myself SEO, Google Analytics, advertising copy, email marketing, and most importantly, white-hat link building techniques.
  • Currently on the first page of Google for a keyword (sweat shorts) that exceeds 12k searches a month.

Gameday Media | Portland, Oregon

Graphic Desinger | June 2012-Nov 2013
  • Designed 80-page media guides for sporting events using the Adobe Creative Suite.
  • Communicated directly with clients to create their vision.
  • Handled a hodgepodge of client submitted files to produce articles, rosters, team photos, and additional content.
  • Completed work on strict print deadlines. Sometimes putting in long nights to make last minute changes.

Education

Boise CodeWorks

Boise, Idaho | Jan 2018-Apr 2018

Full-stack immersive program with over 500 hours of programming. Including 4 complete full-stack applications.

Oregon State University

Corvallis, Oregon | Sept 2007-Dec 2011

New Media Communications Concentration; Minor in Spanish; Minor in Business and Entrepreneurship

Herding Tools:

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Sidekiq
  • Turbo/Hotwire
  • Stimulus.js
  • Stimulus Reflex
  • CSS/Tailwind
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • Metabase
  • RSpec/Minitest
  • Capybara
  • Github Actions
  • Circle CI
  • Cloudflare
  • AWS
  • Sentry
  • New Relic
  • Claude/Cursor
  • Figma
  • Jira