Mike Nicklas
CTO at Humaniz.io
Ocean City, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolMike Nicklas is a pragmatic CTO and full-stack web developer with 11 years of experience building growth-focused product features and delightful UIs. He blends a background in UI design and marketing with hands-on engineering—shipping components, landing pages, and dark mode UX improvements for prominent open-source docs like PostHog’s website. His career spans startups and scale-ups including Stripe and TaxJar, where he moved from frontend implementations to senior engineering responsibilities. Based in Ocean City, MD, he specializes in driving user activation through product-facing engineering and polished front-end experiences. Colleagues know him for turning marketing and design needs into technically sound, production-ready features and for optimizing small details (like contributor image handling) that improve perceived quality. He brings a designer’s eye to engineering trade-offs and a track record of shipping measurable growth levers.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Graduated, Political Science, Graduated, Political Science at Salisbury University
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Github Skills (6)
javascript10
tailwindcss10
gatsby10
react10
css9
doc7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PostHog/posthog.com
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Official docs, website, and handbook for PostHog.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 14 commits, 10 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the front-end development of the PostHog documentation and website. They focused on implementing UI components, including a new landing page, careers page, and blog redesign, utilizing Tailwind CSS and Gatsby. The user also updated the navbar and hero section, improving consistency, and incorporated dark mode functionality. Furthermore, they made styling adjustments, optimized contributor images, and enhanced the overall user experience.
gatsbytailwindcsshandbookdesignposthog
mikenicklas/featureloop_beta
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:11 PRs, 20 pushes, 10 branches in 12 days
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