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 (44)
loopback10
protocols8
input-validation8
lazy-loading8
duplicates8
responsive-design8
architecture7
account-linking7
hijax7
surface7
orm7
scrape7
templating7
fluent-interface6
libphonenumber6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PelagicCreatures/sargasso
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Simple, Fast, Supervised Javascript controllers for responsive custom html elements.
Contributions:248 commits, 11 PRs, 247 pushes in 3 years
responsive-designprogressive-enhancementpwasurfaceanimation-frame
mediapolis/digitopia-example
Feb 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 111 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
scaffolding
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