Michael Rhodes
Lead Architect, Founder. at Mediapolis
United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Rhodes is a veteran systems architect and founder with over three decades of hands-on programming and systems integration experience and 11+ years in senior leadership roles, currently leading architecture at Publishers Weekly and BookLife while running Mediapolis. He has designed and operated high-volume, cloud-native web platforms for major brands like The New York Times, Sony, GlaxoSmithKline and NPR, plus successful startup replatforms and payment-enabled products. Deep expertise spans responsive front-end engineering, API integrations (Stripe, social APIs, geospatial services), and AWS-based scaling, CI/CD and containerization pipelines. Michael specializes in solving thorny problems—responsive retrofits, dynamic scaling, cloud migrations, data transformation and collaborative content workflows—and routinely brings an experienced team to larger engagements. A longtime practitioner of web protocols and performance, he also runs enduring community sites (Datalounge) and experiments with distributed social protocols, reflecting both product instincts and operational discipline. He’s actively seeking remote contract work and early-stage engagements where practical architecture and rapid delivery matter.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (29)
loopback9
lazy-loading9
protocols8
templating8
responsive-design8
diaspora8
html-element7
architecture7
account-linking7
hijax7
observable7
orm7
federated7
input-validation6
dom6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PelagicCreatures/tropicbird
Jan 2020 - Apr 2022
@pelagiccreatures/tropicbird Sargasso Managed Material Design Components
Contributions:2 PRs, 70 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
material-designdialogdomdrawergoogle-material
PelagicCreatures/flyingfish
Jan 2020 - Apr 2022
@pelagiccreatures/flyingfish Sargasso Managed Lazy Loading Images for HTML pages
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
lazy-loadinges6javascriptlazy-loadsargasso
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