# Michael Walliser

> Creative Technologist and UX Engineer with over a decade across design and production frontend. Pixel-precise frontend across luxury brands, Fortune 500 companies, and Big Tech contracts; design systems, motion and 3D / WebGL, accessibility, and self-built AI tooling. Based in Boulder, Colorado; serves the Mountain West and Pacific Northwest, remote-first.

## About

Michael Walliser is a Creative Technologist and UX/Design Engineer who carries design intent into production at the fidelity it was drawn. He came up through graphic design and then spent over a decade on production frontend, spanning luxury brands, Fortune 500 companies, and Big Tech contracts. He works across design systems, motion and 3D, and the production frontend, and builds the AI tooling that lets one person ship all of it. He is based in Boulder, Colorado and is available for remote, contract, or full-time creative-lead and engineering roles.

## Expertise

- Design systems (multi-brand tokens, component libraries, Figma-to-code)
- Motion design and 3D / WebGL (Three.js, React Three Fiber, shaders, post-processing)
- Production frontend (React, Next.js, TypeScript, production CSS)
- UX / design engineering and design-to-code at production fidelity
- Accessibility and web performance engineering
- AI-augmented development (Claude API, hybrid full-text + vector RAG, multi-agent orchestration)
- Self-hosted platform engineering (Directus, Caddy, Neon, Matomo, S3 on EC2)

## Selected work

- Luxury frontend, real-time customer-engagement platform: owned a flagship luxury account's v1-to-v2 frontend cutover and shipped ~40 client implementations across fashion, cosmetics, and entertainment; built a scaffolding tool and in-house CSS framework.
- Analog Elk platform: designed, built, and operates a self-hosted multi-tenant stack behind 15+ production properties, with a Next.js platform of ~230 components, Stripe billing, cost and health dashboards, and React Three Fiber backgrounds.
- AI tooling: a Claude Code plugin with hybrid full-text and vector RAG over ~500 docs, plus a 30-command spec-driven workflow with multi-agent review and automated staging-to-production.
- @analogelk/background-three-js: a reusable, framework-agnostic animated-background WebGL package (spring physics, scroll reactivity, post-processing), consumed across Analog Elk properties.

## Frequently asked

- What does Michael Walliser specialize in? Creative technology and UX/design engineering: carrying design intent into production at full fidelity, design systems, motion and 3D / WebGL, accessibility, performance, and AI-augmented development.
- What is a creative technologist? A hybrid who works fluently across design and engineering, taking design intent into shipped, production-grade interfaces rather than handing it off.
- Where is Michael Walliser based and what regions does he serve? Boulder, Colorado; serves the Mountain West and Pacific Northwest (including Denver and Portland), remote-first.
- What kind of work does he take on? Creative-lead, design-engineering, front-end-lead, and AI-product roles; luxury and brand-critical frontend, design systems, and 3D/motion web experiences.
- How does he use AI? He builds his own AI tooling (Claude API, RAG, multi-agent orchestration) as a force multiplier so one person can design, build, and operate full production systems.

## Pages

- [Portfolio](https://walliser.me): Selected work, capabilities, range, and contact.
- [Resume (PDF)](https://walliser.me/assets/michael-walliser-resume.pdf): One-page resume.

## Contact

- Email: mike@walliser.me
- Phone: +1-720-474-8782
- Location: Boulder, CO (Mountain West and Pacific Northwest, remote-first)
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/walliser
- GitHub: https://github.com/AnalogElk
- Company: https://analogelk.com
- Photography (Seen by Mikey): https://wlsr.me