Available for new opportunities

Building beautiful
web & mobile experiences

I'm Miguel Angel Garcia — a senior full-stack engineer who's spent 15+ years turning ideas into fast, polished products. I've led teams, and for the past two years I've built AI-first every day.

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About me

The web has changed a lot in 15 years. So have I.

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.” — Steve Jobs

I'm a full-stack engineer with more than 15 years of experience building thoughtful, reliable digital products for web and mobile users. My career has evolved from designing and developing websites to architecting complex web applications, leading technical initiatives, and collaborating with engineers, designers, and business stakeholders to turn ideas into scalable solutions.

I bring a strong appreciation for interface design and user experience, along with a deep focus on architecture, maintainability, accessibility, and delivery. I care not only about what a team builds, but also how it collaborates, makes decisions, and consistently ships high-quality work. I have also mentored aspiring developers through a coding mentorship program at UT Dallas.

I'm interested in senior engineering opportunities where I can combine hands-on development with technical leadership, architecture, mentorship, and product thinking. That may take the form of an engineering leadership position or a senior individual contributor role, depending on the team and the problems being solved.

Over the past two years, AI-assisted development has become an important part of my day-to-day workflow. I use tools such as Claude Code and work directly with the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs to accelerate research, prototyping, implementation, and refinement. My two most recent applications, QCP Staffing / Minute and Appointment Hub, were developed end to end using this AI-enabled approach.

Never. Stop. Learning.

15+
Years experience
2+
Years of AI-first development
∞
Always learning

Career

Experience

15+ years across agencies, product companies, and independent work — as an engineer, a lead, and a director.

2024 — Present

Senior Software Developer

Jonah Digital

  • Build and maintain the products behind Jonah's apartment marketing platform — powering property sites and landing pages across the multifamily industry.
  • Develop across the full stack with an AI-assisted workflow, focusing on architecture, performance, and code quality.

2015 — 2024

Director of Web Development

RealPage

  • Led and managed a team of developers building B2B & B2C marketing websites, events, CRM and CMS platforms — including realpage.com, Kigo, and Propertyware.
  • Delivered essential marketing tools that improved efficiency by 70% and reduced costs by 60%.
  • Implemented a design library standardizing components, boosting code maintainability by 40%.
  • Designed an API system and drove cross-team collaboration.

2013 — 2015

Web Developer

Ivie

  • Built digital media, marketing landing pages, and custom content management systems — including the Fresh Thyme CMS application.
  • Responsive web & mobile development, API design and integration, and project scope writing.

2008 — 2013

Lead Web Developer

A.M. Design

  • Developed websites, mobile sites, and apps for clients including Commscope, Watermark Church, and Red Rocks Church; modified and extended a custom CMS.
  • Provided technical direction on technology choices and presented on emerging technologies and best practices.

Brands I've built for

  • AT&T
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Travel Channel
  • Sonic
  • Cricket Wireless
  • RealPage
  • Twin Peaks
  • Which Wich
  • Fresh Thyme
  • Stagen

Selected work

Projects

A selection of products I've designed and built end-to-end — from interface to backend.

“We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.” — Steve Jobs

QCP Staffing / Minute

Staffing platform managing the full workflow end-to-end. One of two major applications built AI-first over the last two years.

Laravel MySQL AI-assisted

Appointment Hub

Appointment scheduling platform that streamlines booking for businesses and their clients, developed with an AI-first workflow.

Laravel MySQL AI-assisted

Aurora Commerce

A headless storefront with a custom design system and blazing checkout.

UI/UX React JS Laravel

Finlytics Dashboard

Real-time analytics dashboard visualizing millions of events.

Vue JS PHP MySQL

Pulse Fitness

Cross-platform fitness tracker with live workout sync.

UI React JS AWS

Studio Portfolio CMS

A flexible CMS letting creatives publish beautiful case studies.

Back-end Laravel MySQL

Toolbox

Skills & Tools

The languages, infrastructure, and AI tooling I reach for to design, build and ship full-stack products.

“To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.” — Steve Jobs

Languages & Frameworks

<> HTML
{ } CSS
JS JavaScript
⚛ React JS
V Vue JS
TS TypeScript
php PHP
L Laravel
≈ Tailwind CSS

Infrastructure & Delivery

SQL MySQL
aws AWS
CI CI/CD
git Git
D Docker
F Laravel Forge
✓ Automated Testing

AI & Workflow

CC Claude Code
✳ Claude API
◎ OpenAI API

Contact

Let's build something together.

Have a role, a team, or a project in mind? Send a note and I'll get back to you soon.