Micah Gentzel is a web developer with 12 years of experience in website management, full-stack development, and UX/design. Micah's technical and creative expertise is complimented by the soft skills necessary to guide clients and non-technical stakeholders in website strategy, user experience, and best practices.
Employment
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Technical Manager @Push10
Philadelphia, PA RemoteCurrent role, since 2024
- Leads web development team for an award-winning design and branding agency, along with architecture-focused sub-brand Third & Arch.
- Shapes development processes to improve efficiency, coding standards, and end-user experience.
- Bridges communication between the development team and management, designers, business development, and account executives.
- Manages multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring they are completed on time and within scope.
- Provides website support to clients under maintenance and retainers.
- Supports business development with RFP reviews and technical audits of prospects.
- Manages relationships with third-party vendors and partner agencies.
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Lead Developer @Clear Digital
San Jose, CA Remote2022–2024
- Led WordPress development projects for an award-winning web agency specializing in technology clients.
- Worked directly with clients, project managers, lead designers, and other stakeholders to ensure delivery of website build and maintenance projects.
- Prepared and executed website build plans, content audits, performance testing, and site optimizations.
- Managed in-house and offshore development teams on each project.
- Led website maintenance accounts for clients on retainer.
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Developer @Allebach Communications
Souderton, PA2020–2022
- Full-stack web developer for a full-service creative marketing agency specializing in food and beverage clients.
- Planned web projects with account executives and creative teams based on evolving best practices in web production, such as mobile-first and accessibility-focused design.
- Set up and maintained entire web development process for clients, from hosting to website programming and ongoing maintenance.
- Built custom HTML marketing emails and fully custom WordPress themes based on designs produced by in-house creatives.
- Designed, built, and presented reports directly to clients regarding web and email performance against KPI goals and industry benchmarks on a quarterly basis.
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Senior Web Developer @FunnelKake
Bethlehem, PA2017–2020
- Senior web developer for inbound marketing agency offering custom websites.
- Built client websites using WordPress, BigCommerce, and Shopify.
- Maintained and extended in-house project management system built on legacy codebase (Symfony version 2.4).
- Setup client hosting and website maintenance processes to work at scale in a small agency onboarding 5-10 clients monthly.
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Web Developer @EggZack
Bethlehem, PA2017–2020
- Maintained legacy (Symfony version 1.3) web app with 10k clients built for small businesses to manage their own websites using a custom CMS.
- Performed on-demand customizations to client websites using built-in support ticket system.
- Worked with original developer team to modernize old templates.
- Improved site editing capability to reduce support requests.
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Web Developer / Product Photographer @CoverON
Allentown, PA2013–2017
- Web developer for branded WordPress website for an ecommerce company based in Allentown, PA.
- Built custom HTML templates for branded eBay listings under sub-brands SkyTechStore, Time4Deal, and CoverON.
- Built custom WordPress plugins for main website for listing featured products, featured brands, and phone case search by make+model.
- Streamlined inhouse product photography by building and maintaining inhouse intranet image optimization and SKU-based indexing tools.
Work
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Clear Digital
Agency Website | cleardigital.comLead Developer
Led development of Clear Digital's agency website, one of the agency's first projects utilizing headless WordPress. Project began with using Astro, and completed using NextJS. Development challenges included custom cursor, smooth scrolling, responsive sizing, and marker/highlighter animations. -
Nile Secure
Network as a Service Website | nilesecure.comLead Developer
Led development of custom WordPress site for a Network as a Service (NAAS) company, creating a custom theme from in-house design. Development challenges included scroll-based animations and making complex background graphics work seamlessly within a block-based content system. -
Portworx
Software Website | portworx.comLead Developer
Led development team on a maintenance retainer for Portworx, fulfilling client requests to add features, publish content, and coordinate marketing events via the website. Additionally oversaw maintenance team's monthly updates. -
NobleAI
Science-Based AI Website | noble.aiLead Developer
Led development side of retainer for a Science-Based AI (SBAI) and Visualizations, Insights & Predictions (VIP) platform's brochure website. Challeneges included working within the Webflow page builder to implement custom designs in a responsive, mobile-friendly manner. -
Habu
Data Cleanroom Website | habu.comLead Developer
Led development of Habu's lead-generating marketing site for their data cleanroom software. Initially on the Elementor page builder, challenges included optimizing the site's performance by building a custom navigation, and making the resource archive more performant with a custom caching and filtering solution. -
Cribl
Data Observability Website | cribl.ioLead Developer
Led development side of maintenance retainer for a large data observability company's marketing and documentation website. Challenges included working within existing Elementor content, and developing custom blocks and templates when necessary for site performance and/or design flexibility requirements. -
Mrs. T's Pierogies
Food Brand Website | mrstspierogies.comDeveloper
Developed and maintained 2 WordPress websites for a consumer food brand - one for consumer-facing marketing and another for restaurant-facing foodservice. Challenges included developing a mobile-first store locator integrating with a custom API and Google Maps and creating custom HTML emails. -
EggZack
Marketing Automation CMS | eggzack.comDeveloper
Developer on a marketing automation CMS built by EggZack, which allows small businesses to quickly build and update their own website. Integrates with social platforms to automate sharing posts made by the website. Challenges included developing the built-in ticket support system, and migrating legacy Symfony 1.3 code to Symfony 3.