Mike Laurel
Principal Web Developer at Nice North America
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Laurel is a Principal Web Developer based in San Diego with over two decades of web experience and 11 years in senior roles, specializing in modern front-end frameworks, JAMstack, and headless CMS migrations. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering with a strong focus on front-end performance, design systems, and secure architecture—recently working with SolidJS, SvelteKit, and JSX-compatible ecosystems. His consulting background includes building secure WebRTC video chat systems and custom business tools, and he’s exploring cybersecurity tooling and agentic terminal workflows informed by Security+ principles. Known for driving migrations from legacy CMS and optimizing core web vitals, he pairs pragmatic engineering with UX sensibility honed since early roles at Nokia and Microsoft. Quietly entrepreneurial, he’s led small teams, secured investor engagement in past startups, and continually experiments with Kali Linux and AI-driven developer environments.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Front-end Web Development, Front-end Web Development at Dev BootcampBA, User Interface Design and Development, BA, User Interface Design and Development at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Github Skills (41)
git10
github9
autocomplete7
window-manager6
static-site6
markdoc6
facets6
tailwindcss5
event-tracking5
markdown5
hugo4
search-engine4
angularjs-application4
google-analytics4
xmonad4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mlaurel/css-reset
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
mlaurel/phase-0-tracks
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:130 PRs, 136 pushes, 85 branches in 2 months
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