michael ciccarelli

software engineer with 20+ years building for the web, focused on the frontend — design systems, ui components, interaction, and motion. full-stack depth when a project needs it. available for fractional and contract work.

email — m@ciccarel.li
social — x / ig / li / gh — mciccarelli
  1. 2018—current
    third index — principal engineer

    independent product and frontend work for agencies, startups, and consumer brands — amazon, pentagram, elara pictures, axoni. now a studio building product interfaces, marketing sites, and commerce.

  2. 2024—2025
    modern treasury — design engineer, new york

    built interfaces for an enterprise fintech platform processing billions in payments annually. contributed to motion patterns, component systems, and headless cms infrastructure.

  3. 2022—2024
    metropolis — senior frontend engineer, brooklyn

    built smart contract deployment tooling (metal.build) and dao governance products (pod.xyz). worked across evm-compatible dapps, farcaster integrations, and web3 frontends.

  4. 2014—2018
    vice media — lead frontend engineer, brooklyn

    led frontend on the publishing platform for vice, noisey, motherboard, and munchies. migrated from legacy lamp stack to microservices and react. established component systems and frontend standards.

  5. 2012—2014
    condé nast — web developer, new york

    built responsive sites for gq, wired, and architectural digest. collaborated with internal teams, global brands, and agencies on editorial features and campaigns.