michael ciccarelli
design engineer building for the web — bespoke interfaces, platforms, and design systems. 20+ years in. based in las vegas, independent, running third index — a small design and engineering studio. currently building bankroll.fyi.
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- third index — founder, las vegas, 2025—present
studio practice. building product interfaces, web platforms, and the systems behind them. client work across fintech, commerce, and creative teams, alongside original products.
- modern treasury — design engineer, new york, 2024—2025
designed and built interfaces for an enterprise fintech platform processing billions in payments annually. contributed to motion patterns, component systems, and headless cms infrastructure.
- metropolis — senior frontend engineer, brooklyn, 2022—2024
built smart contract deployment tooling (metal.build) and dao governance products (pod.xyz). worked across evm-compatible dapps, farcaster integrations, and frontends for web3.
- freelance — full-stack engineer, 2018—2022
contract work across agencies, publishers, consumer brands, and fintech. clients included elara pictures, amazon, pentagram, and axoni. built platforms across marketplaces, editorial systems, and product interfaces.
- vice media — lead frontend engineer, brooklyn, 2014—2018
led a team of 10 building the publishing platform for vice, noisey, motherboard, and munchies. migrated from a legacy lamp stack to micro-services, react, established component systems and frontend standards.
- condé nast — web developer, new york, 2012—2014
developed responsive sites for gq, wired, and architectural digest. collaborated with internal teams, global brands, and agencies on editorial features and digital campaigns.