Summary
Michael Ashton is a frontend developer with 10 years of experience building lightweight, elegant web interfaces and e-commerce solutions from Cologne, Germany. Comfortable across React, Vue, Angular, Django and WordPress/Shopware, he currently crafts Vue dashboards, plugins and themes to improve European online retail at cusati media. His background as a materials scientist and a PhD with multiple peer-reviewed publications gives him unusually strong technical communication and research-driven problem-solving skills, which he applies to software architecture and documentation. He has a history of shipping end-to-end projects—from a Django-driven research website and MongoDB-backed data pipelines to automation tooling for HPC—which demonstrates both front-end polish and back-end pragmatism. Always curious, he actively seeks new tools and approaches to make interfaces faster, more delightful, and easier to maintain.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Materials Engineering, 3.87, Bachelor of Science (BS), Materials Engineering, 3.87 at University of Florida
Spanish, German