I'm Micheal Richman, a full-stack engineer with a designer's judgment. Every project starts from the problem, not a preferred stack: I choose the best tool for each build — Rails where reliability matters, Next.js where speed does, self-hosted infrastructure where control does — grounded in a core understanding of the engineering underneath and an open mind about what sits on top.

I work AI-natively, using the best models and current tooling to compress build cycles without compromising the result — many deployments a day, verified in production, on systems with real users. Everything on this page was designed, engineered, and shipped by me.