Michael Jelks
Team Lead at Lab Zero Innovations Inc.
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Jelks is a seasoned software leader with over a decade of full-stack development and team leadership experience in the Bay Area. He blends hands-on engineering across the full stack—from front-end to back-end—with a track record of driving continuous deployment, test-driven quality, and reliable production systems. As Team Lead at Lab Zero Innovations since 2014, he coordinates cross-functional teams and aligns engineering output with client goals through focused weekly sprints and retrospectives. His technical depth spans Ruby on Rails, PHP, SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL), and modern frameworks like Vue.js and React, underpinned by strong awareness of ORM performance costs. He started coding in the late 1990s with static HTML and Perl, giving him a long view of evolving web architectures and the discipline to balance speed with stability. Based in Palo Alto, California, he also brings formal training in arts and anthropology, contributing a unique perspective on problem solving and user-centered design.
12 years of coding experience
B.S., Anthropology, B.S., Anthropology at University of California, DavisDiploma, Diploma at Ridgewood High SchoolDiploma, Spanish Arts and Literature, Diploma, Spanish Arts and Literature at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
English, Spanish, German, French
Github Skills (28)
rack-middleware9
google-play8
rack8
ruby-wrapper8
blocking7
throttling7
music7
rack-attack7
usps7
rails6
ruby6
middleware6
ruby-on-rails5
ruby-client5
api5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mjelks/media-library
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Rails web application for displaying and entering media library of items I own
Contributions:37 PRs, 64 pushes, 18 branches in 1 month
mjelks/smugmug-api-cms-integrations
Jun 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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