Hi, I’m Michael Todd.

At 5 years old, my daughter Ruby already gets it. We’ll drive past a construction site, and she’ll say, “They need a girl—and it’s me. That’s a Ruby problem.”

Builders like us take ownership. We don’t see a pile of rubble. We envision the structure rebuilt.

Since I was her age, I’ve been set on creating. That drive led me to earn my degree in journalism in 2011. It led me to help establish the nonprofit Hear Nebraska as its first employee in 2012.

It led me to learn how to code in 2014. I landed my first web development job at Lemonly. It was there that I created hundreds of immersive, interactive infographics for clients such as Marriott and internal tools built with Ruby on Rails that are still in use today.

Joining my first team of developers at Blend Interactive, I helped to implement large CMS projects using platforms such as Optimizely (formerly Episerver) built on Microsoft’s .NET framework.

At DonorDrive, I spent five years building fundraising software used by hundreds of nonprofits and thousands of constituents. I led our design systems work and helped rebuild the embedded donation form infrastructure—dramatically improving conversion, accessibility, and user experience across the platform.

Now at Click Rain, I work across the stack to build fast, accessible websites for mission-driven clients. I lead front-end development on large Craft CMS (PHP/Yii) builds, contribute to DevOps workflows and deployment pipelines, and collaborate closely with designers and strategists to deliver polished, performant work. I also lead accessibility audits and guide teams toward WCAG compliance.

More than anything, I care about people. I bring empathy into every team I join and try to make my collaborators’ lives easier—through thoughtful code, clear communication, and real ownership.