micahrich.com
micah@micahrich.com
Besides being in web dev & design for 15+ years, I have a design degree, have taught myself to code, and run my own businesses for more than a decade — which gives me a powerful unique edge in any position.
My experience teaching, with patience, empathy, and ability to simplify complicated processes gives me strong abilities to both lead & work well with cross-dimensional teams.
Various recent freelance consulting projects for clients like Type Thursday, Stacker, Frito Lay, Pentagram, Google, and many more.
Compact Magazine, working directly with Pentagram, hired me to design & develop their new website.
Stacker, a tool for generating internal tools, portals, and dashboards, hired me to design and develop their main database UI.
Type Thursday, a global community of type designers & enthusiasts, hired me to design and develop internal tools for organizing events, revenue sharing, and more.
Cheetos hired me to design & develop a machine-learning based app for a Superbowl campaign — which won awards from Cannes Lion, D&AD, Webbies, and more.
Lexend Fonts, a project funded by Google to make a variable font that's customized to your reading ability, hired me to design & develop their identity and website.
Founded first open-source font foundry. Collect & publish open-source fonts marketing to design pros & newbies both. Wrote, designed, and coded website, ebooks, blogs, podcast, merch, & online courses.
Designed & developed the first open-source font foundry, back in 2009 as browsers were starting to allow @font-face. Built it into an audience of 100k+ designers.
The Quick Brown Fox Tee was just one of the many pieces of merch over the years, designed & sold exclusively to our audience.
Wrote, designed, and published a book on all the ins-and-outs of font licensing.
Developed & produced a long-running podcast on typography, design, and the web, featuring news, interviews, and more.
Designed & developed a series of online courses & partner workshops with leading typography experts. Ran both live & on-demand for memberships.
Developed a remote online intensive called 'The Confident Designer: Beyond Designing by Feeling' to teach designers how to use typography in their work.
Architected, led, and launched a custom community site using modern tech (Next.js, Vercel, SWR, Supabase) for a client. Consulted on a backend-heavy corporate redesign project and on business & team development.
One-man product team for custom internal tools powering a 24/7 real-time crime reporting app — created product roadmap, designed & developed full-stack tools for the team, increasing efficiency by a measured 60%. Not to mention morale.
Designed & developed multiple custom internal tools for the team to manage real-time crime reports, increasing efficiency by 60%.
Designed & developed a realtime video monitoring system for the team to watch, approve, or reject live video crime reports.
Designed & developed a custom front & backend for parsing realtime 911 audio signals into an advanced keyboard-navigable player for the team to review.
Founded by former students whom I taught to code at GA. Worked as an Expert In Residence, then a Technical Product Manager teaching junior devs new tech & skills (Node, Docker, machine learning, microservices, React), improving DX and managing & developing client projects & internal products.
Began as a Lead Instructor for the Web Development Immersive, a program to teach full-stack development in 12 weeks, earned the highest NPS scores in Los Angeles. Quickly promoted to WDI Global Product Fellow, working directly with the Product Manager in charge of 14 international locations across 6 time zones.
Designed & developed a custom internal tool for tracking student progress, attendance, and NPS scores.
Redesigned & developed the WDI curriculum to be more modular, flexible, and up-to-date with the latest tech — including React, Node, and more.
After redesigning the curriculum, I worked with teachers across the globe to craft a new handbook that was more engaging & effective — including a Harry Potter length textbook to teach the material.
Co-Founded design & development agency working in business development, marketing strategy, design, and development. Worked on self-funded products & projects, and clients such as Stripe, Metalab, Heroku, Mozilla, & more.
Co-Founded design & development agency working in business development, marketing strategy, design, and development. Worked with clients + self-funded products & side projects.
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Dual Major - Motion Graphics / Graphic Design
International Masters program to learn the business of hospitality, focused on innovation in entrepreneurship