Michael Windell
Director at Stormlight Studio
Greater Leeds Area United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMichael Windell is a director and full-stack web engineer with over 12 years of professional experience and a 16-year hands-on background in building performant web apps and sites. He leads Stormlight Studio and freelances on projects that span modern stacks—Node.js, Next.js, React, Angular, Vue, Three.js, GraphQL—and cloud platforms including AWS, Azure and GCP, often automating CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Docker. Previously a Principal JavaScript Engineer at twentysix, he designed headless, high-performance frameworks, mentored teams, and delivered enterprise-grade projects like eLearning platforms and voice skills. Comfortable moving between front-end interfaces and backend services, he also brings legacy eCommerce experience from Magento and PHP into modern headless architectures. Known for pragmatic architecture and deployment focus, he frequently combines headless CMSs, serverless services and AI integrations (OpenAI) to accelerate product delivery.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
2,584reputation
1.9mreached
37answers
30questions
webpack
top-5%
firefox
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
visual-studio10
eclipse10
javascript10
jquery10
animation10
slide10
browser10
editor10
select210
json10
npm-cli10
swipe-gestures10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
outeredge/sass
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 67 pushes in 2 years 8 months
csssassflexedge
outeredge/magento-module-cachebuster
May 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
cachebustermagento2outeredgemagento
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