Expertise

The natural evolution of your business.

Core skills — Kelly Michels, including software design and UI design, plus AWS operations for Evomedia.net production.

QA & automation

Automated functional testing, regression, integration, end-to-end testing, visual validation, software accessibility testing.

CI/CD & DevOps

Jenkins, Artifactory, GitHub, Jira webhooks & triggers.

API & scripting

API testing, Python, PHP, PowerShell, Cursor automation.

Software design & UI design

Product and system thinking, information architecture, interaction patterns, visual hierarchy, and cohesive UI for web and desktop experiences — from early structure through implementation-ready layouts.

3D & AI domain

Autodesk AI MotionMaker, ML Toolkit, 3ds Max, 3D generalist, Maya pipelines, character animation validation, geometry workflows.

AI tools

Autodesk AI MotionMaker, ML Toolkit, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, Antigravity, Cursor, LM Studio.

Professional skills

Executive communication, technical documentation, cross-team collaboration, stakeholder alignment.

AWS — setup, configuration, maintenance

Strong practical experience running production-facing sites and services on Amazon Web Services, end-to-end:

  • EC2: instance sizing, AMIs, SSH access, security groups, elastic IPs / DNS, patching rhythm, cost-aware choices.
  • Web tier: Apache httpd installation and hardening, VirtualHost configuration, DocumentRoot and static deploys, Directory permissions, logs, and HTTP→HTTPS redirects.
  • TLS & networking: Let’s Encrypt / Certbot (or integration with your load balancer), certificate renewal discipline, firewall posture at the instance.
  • Release & maintenance: repeatable sync of build artifacts (e.g. rsync / scp of a static dist/), smoke checks after deploy, troubleshooting MIME and asset paths, routine OS and package updates.

Technical interests

3D printing & digital fabrication — model preparation, slicing optimization, geometry validation, printer calibration.