Michelle Lupei
Principal User Experience Architect Developer at GoodCubed
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolMichelle Lupei is a Principal User Experience Architect and full‑stack developer with 16 years designing human-centered interfaces that bridge UX, mobile engineering, and applied intelligence. She leads freelance and consultancy engagements from Silicon Valley to K Street and Wall Street, creating bidirectional human/computer interactions that optimize AI/ML systems through real-time user signals. Her work spans rapid prototyping and production—Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, native mobile—and includes contributions to mobile UI in the widely used Rhodes framework. Michelle pairs ethnographic and linguistic anthropology training with hands-on OSINT, computer vision and digital forensics experience, having built analyst collaboration platforms and intelligence workflows for public, private, and non‑profit sectors. Notably, she has designed security-conscious identity and content-authorization prototypes on Hyperledger and applied UX to high-stakes domains like surveillance, financial crime, and child protection.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, San DiegoBA, BS, Linguistic Anthropology, Ecology/Ethology/Evolution, BA, BS, Linguistic Anthropology, Ecology/Ethology/Evolution at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMolecular Biology and Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics at University of Miami
French, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
css10
mobile-development10
android-development9
ui-design9
ios9
heroku6
cors6
rvm6
tdd6
code-organization6
faye6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rhomobile/rhodes
Apr 2010 - Apr 2010
The Rhodes framework is a platform for building locally executing, device-optimized mobile applications for all major smartphone devices.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:92 commits in 22 days
Contributions summary:Michelle primarily focused on updating the Rhodes framework's UI elements, specifically related to mobile application styling. They modified CSS files (iphone.css, android.css, blackberry.css, windows_mobile.css) to refine the appearance of various UI components, including buttons, lists, forms, and navigation elements. The changes included updating layouts, styling form elements, and modifying the display of client ID information within the application. The user's work aimed at ensuring a consistent and improved user experience across different mobile platforms.
mobile-application
soychicka/nutrition
Nov 2015 - Feb 2026
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 4 months
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