Michael Thomas

What I do

I am a full stack developer. I've been building websites since I was a teenager in the early 2000s, and professionally for the last fifteen years. That first site I built as a teenager is still in active use today, now run by a charity I later volunteered for.

Right now I'm the sole developer behind WordSeed, a performance-marketing platform I've built and run end to end since 2021: the product, the infrastructure, and everything in between. I love working across the whole stack, from front and back end to configuring servers, domains, and email, each with its own particular challenges.

Whilst I currently work mostly with Laravel, Vanilla JS and SCSS, previous roles have given me a lot of expertise in other areas such as Magento, CFML, MySQL and MS SQL Server.

If you want to work together on a project using any of the above technologies, or need someone to look after your domain registration, DNS management, email or web hosting, or any similar services, please get in touch using the details listed above.

Who I am

I grew up in Germany where I obtained a Masters in Nanostructure and Molecular Science. After graduating I moved to the UK. Originally this was meant to be for six months - yet fifteen-odd years later I'm still here.

My wife Sandra is the incredibly talented owner of My Little Chalet and together we have three kids.

We speak a mix of Arabic, English and German at home.

Nearly everything you see here runs on infrastructure I host and maintain myself: the blog, the Git server, the calendar, even my own Mastodon.