Summary
Michael Hicks is a seasoned web development manager and founder with 11+ years leading product-driven engineering teams across startups and large enterprises. He currently runs web development at Ring's End while steering WesData, a turnkey product-feed and ad-tech platform built on AWS, Gatsby, React, Node, Postgres and MongoDB. Michael blends hands-on full‑stack development with product ownership and Scrum leadership, having modernized global web estates at Avon via API-driven, cloud-native architectures and CI practices. His background in advertising and early affiliate/network work gives him a long view of e-commerce and measurement, and he’s known for pairing high engineering standards with exceptional customer service. Based in Stamford, CT, he excels at decomposing legacy monoliths into scalable, API-first systems that improve both developer velocity and user experience.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Tufts University
Brooks School
Spanish, English