michael ciccarelli
design engineer with 20+ years building digital products — interfaces, platforms, and the systems behind them. currently principal at third index, a small design and engineering studio. available for fractional and contract work.
previous experience
- 2024—2025modern 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.
- 2022—2024metropolis — 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.
- 2018—2022freelance — full-stack engineer
contract work across agencies, publishers, consumer brands, and fintech. clients include elara pictures, amazon, pentagram, and axoni. built marketplaces, editorial systems, and product interfaces.
- 2014—2018vice media — lead frontend engineer, brooklyn
led a team of 10 building the publishing platform for vice, noisey, motherboard, and munchies. migrated from legacy lamp stack to microservices and react. established component systems and frontend standards.
- 2012—2014condé 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.