Micah Winkelspecht Email & Phone Number

Remote First, US

Remote First, US

Gem was acquired by Blockdaemon in March 2022. Blockdaemon is the leading independent blockchain node infrastructure to stake, scale, and deploy nodes with institutional-grade security and monitoring. Supporting 50+ cutting edge blockchain networks in the cloud and on bare metal servers globally, Blockdaemon is used by exchanges, custodians, crypto.

Benicia, California, US

BlendJet is the #1 selling brand of blenders direct-to-consumer with millions of customers around the world, and is in over 30,000 retail doors and distributed in 38 countries. BlendJet created the original portable blender and has over 40 issued patents on its cutting-edge technologies.

Venice, CA, US

Gem is a cryptocurrency API company that powers fiat-to-crypto onramps for some of the largest companies in the cryptocurrency industry. Gem gives our partners a beautiful user interface to the crypto universe with just a few lines of code.Our flagship product, Gem Onramp is the "Add Money" button for crypto; an embeddable UI flow offering global fiat.

A LaunchPad LA company.

Venice, CA, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

Atlanta, GA, US

• Architected and developed FrontRunner, a tool for determining therelevancy of search results.
• Developed have2have, an iPhone application that helps shoppers findand purchase the hottest gift items.
• Developed Ajeeb, an application that interfaces with Amazon MechanicalTurk to acquire high-quality, expert results from low-cost, non-expertworker pools.
• Named on two patents pending for FrontRunner and Ajeeb.

New York, NY, US

• Architected the back-end and database structure of a sales andmarketing web application from the ground up.
• Worked with a small team of internal developers and outside contractorsto build and launch the full-scale web application.
• Converted a legacy Rails application to a fully RESTful design
• Designed a comprehensive solution for user media uploads andpresentation, including audio, video, images and file attachments.
• Created a video uploading and distributed video converting solutionusing a combination of Amazon EC2, SMS and S3 web services.
• Built a custom REST API to interface with a Flash WYSIWYG webpageeditor.

• Led a team of developers in building a 3D multi-user web applicationusing Java and the JMonkey engine, and Ruby on Rails for the databaseback-end and web presentation layer.
• Created the database/model structure from scratch and delivered UMLdiagrams to the client.
• Built a full custom XML REST API in Rails to marshal data to and from theexternal Java application.
• Developed social networking features for the website, including usermanagement, friends network, email, tagging, rating and comments.
• Created an administration back-end and content management system forthe client

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Developed and pitched concepts for new potential games to publishers,attended trade shows and industry networking events on behalf of thecompany, created relationships with value-added partners and helpedclose deals to.
• Produced and managed a team of developers in the production of Shrekthe Third the game.

• Founded InSupply.com, a drop-ship product sourcing website thatconnects small internet retailers with major product distributioncompanies.
• Managed an internal team of four people and two contracted webdevelopers to create InSupply.com in PHP, with a heavily modified opensourcee-commerce engine.
• Built relationships with major wholesale distributors across the countryand amassed a catalog of over 50,000 wholesale products.
• Raised $350,000 in first-round seed capital from a small consortium ofinvestors.
• Built an automated inventory data feed management system using acombination of Ruby, PHP and Visual Basic for Applications.

Santa Monica, California, US

• Worked closely with Senior Producer to manage the production ofLemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events the game.
• Managed relationship with the developer, traveled on-site whennecessary, helped steer the creative vision while making regularjudgment calls on development priorities in terms of cost, time andvalue.
• Managed internal quality assurance personnel to insure rapid testing andtimely feedback throughout the production cycle.

Redwood City, CA, US

New York, US