I'm Michael Irigoyen.

Pictogrammers

Co-Founder•February 2023 - Current

I am a co-founder of Pictogrammers, an open source collective that brings together developers and designers from all walks of life, to share their passion for iconography and font design.

As a founding member, I have designed and continue to develop and maintain our web presence in React, TypeScript, and Next.js. Additionally, I have contributed over 1400 unique icons to our various icon libraries. I also help maintain our server and build infrastructure, field issues on GitHub, and maintain social media accounts and public communication.

MotorTrend Group

UX Engineer•April 2023 - Current

As a UX Engineer, I am the architect and lead engineer of our React component library, Ignition Design System. My responsibilities have been to work closely with the UX group, product management, and engineering to build and provide reusable, high quality components to make building our web presence easy and predictable. Our component library is built to be responsive, accessible, and to take advantage of features of Next.js, including Server-Side Rendering (SSR).

Salesforce

SMTS, Software Engineer•June 2021 - March 2023

As a senior member of the Trailhead Community team, my responsibilities included building, updating, and testing a variety of different web components written in TypeScript that we used to build our community forums. Utilizing web standards, each component had aspects such as accessibility, internationalization, and responsiveness concerns baked in.

Accusoft Corporation

Senior Software Engineer II / Scrum Master•September 2015 - March 2021

As a senior software engineer, I worked in a continuously delivered React and Node.js microservice environment. Regularly, I took the lead on designing or implementing new functionality for our SaaS-based applications. I continuously worked to improve the quality of my code through extensive unit and integration testing, as well as employed functional programming techniques and good coding patterns. Additionally, I explored DevOps related tasks that could help improve the quality of life for the engineering team.

As a scrum master, I facilitated and created opportunities each sprint for the team to succeed. I consistently researched, analyzed, and experimented to ensure our Scrum process ran smoothly and without interruption so the team could focus on their goals.

Intervest Construction, Inc.

Web Administrator / Developer•April 2013 - September 2015

I maintained a cloud-hosted LAMP stack which hosted approximately a dozen separate sites. I engineered solutions for our cloud-hosted stack to securely communicate with locally hosted resources. I also created a custom content management system (CMS) in PHP to showcase our home inventory on the web. Through storyboarding and market research, I designed a visually stunning web front-end on top of the CMS in HTML and JavaScript. Additionally, I developed standalone web applications for large touchscreen kiosks in several of our physical sales centers.

Illinois State University

Web Applications Developer•February 2008 - April 2013

Upon graduation, I transitioned into a full-time web applications developer. I continued to iterate and improve the Help Desk knowledge base site while I added a variety of departmental websites to my development responsibilities. As I became more comfortable in my developer role, I began to mentor staff members and student workers of the Help Desk who were also working on web projects.

Student Web Developer•October 2005 - February 2008

As a student web developer, I took on the daunting task of developing a brand new knowledge base content management system (CMS) for the University Computer Help Desk. I utilized PHP for the back-end and designed an HTML and JavaScript front-end.

Illinois State University

B.S. Technology•Graduated 2007

I studied Technology at Illinois State University, because I enjoyed learning about a wide variety of topics. The technology program offered opportunities to explore computer operating systems and hardware, networking, electronics, and programming, instead of focusing on just one specific area. This allowed me to focus on the topics I found the most interesting as I moved into my professional career, while also having a well-rounded background to critically attack any problem I encountered.

I participated in several activities and societies while at Illinois State. I am an alumnus of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and I was a member of the drumline in the Big Red Marching Machine.

Methods and Apparatus for Supporting the Display and Editing of OOXML Document Content Using a Web Browser

US 11,449,665

Patent relates to document storage, display and/or editing and, more particularly, to methods and apparatus which allow a device to display and edit a document using a Web browser, without having to support direct OOXML format document rendering and editing.

Zend Certified Engineer

#ZEND004465•March 14, 2007

The Zend Certified PHP Engineer is an industry-wide standard that recognizes PHP expertise and is a measure of distinction that employers use to evaluate prospective employees.

CompTIA Network+ Certified

#W6WPDLLBYE41QMY5•April 7, 2006

Network+ ensures an IT professional has the knowledge and skills to design and implement functional networks, configure, manage, and maintain essential network devices, implement network security, standards, and protocols, and troubleshoot network problems.

CompTIA A+ Certified

#C4EZM4Y1X24EYP0Z•June 10, 2005

CompTIA A+ certified professionals are proven problem solvers. They support today's core technologies from security to cloud to data management and more. CompTIA A+ is the industry standard for launching IT careers into today's digital world.