Michael Bailey
Founder, CEO, President, Janitor at I Build Cool Shit
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Bailey is a founder and product architect with over two decades of hands-on software and leadership experience, currently launching Lollipop, a physical-to-digital customer engagement platform focused on secure, non‑biometric identity solutions. He has built and exited high‑traffic consumer web properties, led technology at Syfy/NBCUniversal where he architected APIs and large Drupal migrations, and co‑founded conversational media startups like QwipIt. Equally comfortable in code and on the shop floor, he has moved between web, mobile, NFC, and hardware projects—shipping everything from Arduino-powered products to scalable backend services using Python, PHP, MySQL, MongoDB and Redis. Known for creative, pragmatic architecture and agile delivery, he combines product strategy, brand development, and platform engineering to turn novel ideas into measurable customer engagement.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (46)
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
job-queue10
async9
redis-streams9
redis9
rq9
reddit9
task-queue9
python8
backend8
react-redux8
monitors7
django-rest-framework7
face-recognition7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
krowdify/kaddy
Jun 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
grafixoner/uptime
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2025 pushes, 127 comments, 262 issues in 1 year 5 months
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