Mike Ritchie
Full Stack Developer at Policy Reporter
City of Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Ritchie is a pragmatic full stack developer with over a decade of hands-on experience building responsive, accessible web applications from pixel-perfect designs to production APIs. He combines deep front-end expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery, Angular, React) with long-term back-end experience in ColdFusion, PHP, MS SQL/MySQL and modern frameworks like CodeIgniter and Laravel. Mike has led teams and projects—promoted to co-project lead at TicketOps—guiding sprint planning, code reviews, and Git workflow improvements while mentoring engineers. He blends a designer’s eye (Diploma in Graphic Design) with engineering discipline, routinely converting Photoshop/Fireworks mockups into semantic, SEO-friendly markup and modular MVC code. Comfortable across agency, startup and solo contexts, he emphasizes accessibility, testable architectures and pragmatic tooling (GIT/SVN, SSH), and has built complex data visualizations and MFA flows for security-focused products. Based in Langley, BC, he continues shipping full-stack solutions at Policy Reporter while keeping a habit of turning intricate requirements into clean, maintainable implementations.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Graphic Design and Fine Arts, Diploma, Graphic Design and Fine Arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversityFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code Camp
English
Stackoverflow
91reputation
28kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (18)
git10
github10
patch9
subversion8
cache-control6
codeigniter6
angular6
angular-schematics6
php6
cookie6
htaccess6
react-component6
react5
expressjs3
balloon2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
starkraving/wphandzon
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Live Wordpress page editing complete with template
Contributions:18 PRs, 34 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 1 month
wordpresstemplateeditingpage-builder
starkraving/react-rapid-prototype
Mar 2021 - Aug 2024
Rapidly scope and prototype a React application in your browser
Contributions:1 PR, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 5 months
reactbrowserprototypetypescriptscope
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