ResumeMichael Pelletier

Founder & Lead Engineer

Boutique engineering studio delivering websites, applications, content strategy, and creative tools

• Established and owned the company’s technical foundation, setting the technology stack, architecture, and development practices across 12 client projects over three years.
• Built and led a multidisciplinary team of four employees and six contractors, owning hiring, onboarding, mentorship, staffing, and team processes.
• Owned the full client acquisition and commercial process, from pitches and user interviews through proposals, statements of work, pricing, and project delivery, serving clients including Meshh, the National Parks Foundation, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
• Inherited and substantially developed a React and Node.js / Express warehouse and staffing platform for PFP Logistics, modeling employees across multiple warehouses and supporting workflows including invoicing and employee-hour management.
• Continued developing a system for PBS NewsHour after bringing the client to Neon Remedy, expanding and maintaining a Vue.js-based system that transformed Associated Press data into web components and social-media graphics for live election coverage.

Lead Engineer

Design and engineering studio working across research, strategy, branding, and digital products.

• Served as Technical Director for 25+ client projects over 5 years, leading technical strategy and hands-on engineering from discovery through delivery. Clients included Tito’s Vodka, the BSO, The Trace, Up the Block, PBS NewsHour, Covid Protocols, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Earth Alliance.
• Led development of a large-scale Craft CMS platform for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, serving both Tanglewood and Boston Pops and integrating with ticketing and user-account systems to support ticket purchases.
• Designed and architected a greenfield Vue.js application for PBS NewsHour's election coverage, transforming Associated Press data into interactive visualizations and social graphics for live election reporting.
• Redesigned the project creation process and developed a reusable Craft CMS “Starter Kit”, saving hundreds of developer hours across subsequent projects.
• Developed a mentorship program directly supporting 5 engineers, established open office hours for ongoing technical support, and presented company-wide talks on topics including Vue.js and effective context switching.

Senior UX Engineer

Influencer marketing platform for brands to discover, connect with, and collaborate with influencers.

• Led development of a search and recommendation system for identifying influencers that aligned with brand interests, using keyword-based scoring and other relevant signals.
• Introduced ES2015 support, established Jasmine front-end unit testing, and integrated Vue.js, serving as a subject matter expert for modern JavaScript development and testing.
• Partnered with the design team to establish a company-wide style guide, standardizing visual patterns and consistency across the application.

Senior Front-End Developer

Healthcare software company building kiosk and mobile applications for patient check-in, questionnaires, records, and workflow automation.

• Improved build and development workflows by implementing Gulp to automate file watching, asset management, and compilation.
• Partnered with the design team to develop a comprehensive style guide grounded in realistic patient personas, user journeys, and mock data, helping to establish and test consistent application patterns.

Senior Web Developer

Financial education startup focused on helping adults apply financial lessons and behaviors to their individual goals.

• Led a six-month website rewrite, supervising seven developers and overseeing the migration from Ember 1.5 to 2.4, including adoption of Ember CLI and EmberData.
• Grew the development team from 2 to 12 members, taking responsibility for resume reviews, interviewing, and onboarding.
• Established recurring team events including a quarterly two-day hackathon and monthly game night, and launched a community-volunteering employee initiative called “Grownups Give Back”.

UX Engineer

A foreign language textbook publishing company with a SAAS web application around online language learning used in high schools and universities.

• Led UX development for a satellite team of eight back-end engineers, serving as the primary technical resource for front-end development and user experience.
• Partnered with Product Management to define features and user stories and translate product requirements into actionable development tasks.
• Developed wireframes and collaborated closely with designers on new features, translating designs into cross-browser compatible implementations with a focus on user experience.
• Developed four new XML tag parsers in Ruby on Rails to support the creation of online homework assignments for students.
• Presented team-wide technical talks on topics including SASS, cross-browser compatibility, JavaScript namespacing patterns, and strategies for managing document-ready handlers.
• Maintained CSS and JavaScript across a large codebase spanning four applications.

CoFounder & CTO

Real-estate startup developed through the Minneapolis Beta accelerator, focused on social and collaborative tools for home buyers.

• Directed development and feature planning for a prototype mobile application using Vue.js, Quasar, and Python, including an AI-powered concept for reimagining home interiors to help prospective buyers envision a property’s potential.
• Developed the product’s brand identity and visual design, creating a design system encompassing tone, language, typography, and color.
• Contributed technical and product expertise to business pitches, led technology and a volunteer team at a user-research event, and moderated user interviews.

Writer & Editor

• Co-wrote and edited Half-Life: A Place in the West. Currently also serving as editor for Phase Transition, a Half-Life novel and prequel to A Place in the West.
• Contributed as a writer and editor on Slugblaster which was named IGDN's Game of the Year for 2022.
• Assistant editor for the RPG Crescent Moon, lead editor for its the 2nd edition of Crescent as well as its supplement The Exiles. Crescent 2e was nominated for an Ennie in 2026 in the "Best Family Game" category.
• Editor for the B/X edition of Crescent. Wrote the official module Whychwood Fair for the B/X edition.
• Wrote & published unofficial RPG supplements for Blades in the Dark and Monsterhearts.
• Currently writing an RPG called A Passage Through about a medium and their spirit companion, solving mysteries and helping restless ghosts cross over to the other side.