Micah L.

Encinitas, CA

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Django Specialist | Full Stack Architect and Engineer

$275.00/hr

I specialize in architecting and building out systems with Django. I've spent years in the framework, using it to do the heavy lifting for both rapidly building prototypes/MVPs, and careful crafting robust, performant, and scalable production systems. I've designed and built APIs using Django REST Framework, done loads of task-based processing with Celery, and worked with many external systems and integrations. I'm also very comfortable as a full stack software engineer in general. I have React, Vue, and general HTML/CSS/Javascript experience necessary to work across frontend parts of any application. Beyond all of that, I have low-level systems experience and native Android development experience. I also have data science and visualization experience, being familiar with the scientific python stack and D3 JS. I graduated from UC Berkeley in May 2017 with a B.A. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Applied Mathematics.

Work History

Stock + crypto dashboard - Python / Django / Flask / React

5.00 May 16, 2022 - Jan 9, 2023

"Micah is a rockstar. Detail oriented, experienced, no nonsense, communication is excellent, understands the problem and offers multiple solutions. You get what you pay for and he's worth every penny."

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Need Django Expert to Create Enterprise Web App

5.00 Jul 29, 2022 - Sep 26, 2022

"Micah is one of the most gifted engineers I have ever worked with. His knowledge on web development, cloud technologies, and Django makes him of the one the best available architects out there. Micah was tasked with architecting and building the first stage of an analytical CMS enterprise web portal. Micah's ability to apply Django, frontend technologies (React), and leveraging economically scalable cloud-based solutions, made a beautiful final product, ready to enhance to the next stage of the project (which we also awarded to Micah!) Micah set up our SSO solution with auth0 and django, architected and built the django models/views/templates of our enterprise web portal, built a new user email registration process, set up embedded Power BI dashboards with Azure, built out our EC2/RDS postgres database, set up a deployment process + git actions, created a beautiful frontend with react, and designed a very scalable solution-all in under a month! Micah exceeded in delivering all of the project requirements we gave to him, and produced an extremely high-quality codebase. Micah is the real deal-we hope to work with him on many more projects to come! Our customers love the solution that he built and are already using it regularly with ease."

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MariaDB Database Architecture Consult - early May 2022

5.00 May 10, 2022 - May 12, 2022

"Great work, strong technical proficiency, timely responses, I look forward to working again in the future"

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Review & Help Optimize Existing Celery Infrastructure

Jan 24, 2022 - May 6, 2022

No feedback given

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Flask Celery Task Optimisation

5.00 Mar 24, 2021 - Jun 21, 2021

"Best freelancer and software developer on Upwork."

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Looking for a Django developer who can discuss model design best practices

Aug 19, 2020 - Apr 5, 2021

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Convert Python API app from Now v1 to Now v2

5.00 Jul 2, 2020 - Jul 16, 2020

"Micah was thorough, forward thinking, and found a great alternate solution when the it was clear that the requested approach was not going to work. Provided great documentation too."

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Architectural review for Django / React site

5.00 Apr 16, 2020 - Apr 17, 2020

"Micah did an excellent job of analyzing the existing application, and provided a thorough and detailed report. He clearly has a lot of experience with the technology, as well as best practices, packages and trade-offs. I am very happy with his work, and will not hesitate to work with him again. Recommended."

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