Mike Bowen

Frontend Systems & Development

  • strategy
  • design
  • implementation

I design and build interactive systems to help people share ideas, products, stories, and more.

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8

Years experience

Exceptional

Project variety

Mastery

Of frontend tech

Interested?

Work

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About

I began my tech career, unbeknownst to me, as a wilderness guide. And though many aspects of that role are technical, none were digital. Really... only my soft skills transferred. After a decade of romping around the US, I bid it time to step out of that trajectory and find a new one. I began to experiment as to what that could be in my local community, where I built Raspberry Pi devices for artists, finagled spreadsheet automation, helped grad students scrape and scrub data, and built websites for anyone who dared.


I got into agency work and corporate consulting and... voilà! Here we are.



In a world described as prickles and goo. Where the prickliest, want it just so and the gooiest, go with the flow. I'm mostly goo with some prickles too.

Services

User Interfaces

I work with React and Web Components to create dynamic, data-driven interfaces that are accessible, intuitive, and visually engaging. I strive to build headless, which allows one to maintain frontend systems that can adapt to various backend technologies and content management systems.

Business Automation

Beyond the frontend, I leverage APIs to automate processes and integrate third-party tools. I boost productivity and save people from monotonous tasks by building pipelines and processes that increase data accuracy, automate customer interactions, and synchronize backend operations.

User Experience (UX) Design

Not to be confused with a graphic designer, I work with existing branding and visual assets to refine user flows and interactions. This involves wireframeing, prototyping, interviewing, and documenting to create a strategy to build an interface or improve a business process.

Data Integration

The ugly stepbrother to user experience is robot experience. I structure data to be easily consumed by machines — which includes screen readers, search engines, quality assurance tools, and other automated systems. This includes frontend execution through HTML as well as backend data structuring and API design.
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Connect

I'm excited about collaborating on innovative projects and with my local community. Please drop a message to discuss how we can bring your ideas to life.