Michael Feola

About

Frontend-leaning full-stack web developer who helped build an ecommerce SaaS platform from its early foundation, including reusable CMS widgets, client-specific theming, and later modernization efforts. Stands out for successfully navigating a legacy Backbone/Marionette ecosystem, helping introduce React, Storybook, and Jest, and for hands-on accessibility audit work that brought products toward VPAT and WCAG AA/AAA compliance.

Key Strengths

• end-to-end web product ownership in ecommerce SaaS
• cross-functional collaboration with design and overseas teams
• building reusable CMS widgets and scalable UI systems
• rapid adoption of unfamiliar frontend frameworks
• early driver of migration from Marionette to React
• improving developer workflow with Storybook and Jest
• performance-minded state management with Redux caching
• strong code quality practices through reviews and reusable architecture
• accessibility and compliance expertise including VPAT and WCAG AA/AAA
• pragmatic UX problem-solving for assistive technology users
• structured execution planning using Agile/Scrum-style checkpoints
• Balances short-term delivery with long-term maintainability (hardcoded now, designed for later conversion)
• Proactively influences product/process improvements (created wireframes and advocated for admin-configurable widget)
• Builds practical internal tools to solve workflow constraints (import/publish via CMS dashboard widget)
• Data integrity focus in migrations (verification dashboard, reset/delete on failure)
• Uses LLM tools to accelerate development and automation
• Demonstrated large efficiency gain via automation (from ~30 min per shape to ~40 shapes in same time)

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