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Michael Rowe Jones

Design Engineer · New York, NY

I design and build my own work: brand systems, production web platforms, and 3D animation. The through-line: when talented people lose focus to repetitive work, I build the tool that gives it back.

Experience

Full-Stack Developer & Technical Director — The Paradox Process

June 2024 – present · New York, NY

  • The entire digital/creative department for an NYC coaching company: brand, web, product, video, and analytics.
  • Rebranded the company end to end and built the replacement platform: public site prototype, native courses, Stripe checkout, evergreen class scheduling, and email automation. The business kept familiar tools long term, which became the adoption lesson behind Anpa.
  • Designed and built Anpa, a website operations platform with a connected-site API, operator workspace, automations runtime, page composer, and read-only demo data.
  • Built a tunable AI coaching assistant (Vercel AI SDK) with human-in-the-loop preference tuning.
  • Revived the dormant YouTube channel with a Shorts-first strategy: 44.8K organic Shorts views and 94% Shorts-feed discovery in three months.

Freelance 3D Generalist — Independent

June 2020 – June 2023 · Remote

  • 62 delivered projects — 100% on-time, 15+ repeat clients, 5-star rating.
  • Modeled, animated, lit, and edited in Blender and Cinema 4D for clients worldwide, including multiple music-video productions.

Selected work

  • Cohort B — "Yee Yee" — Official music video, animated alone in Blender — 2+ minutes, every frame mine.
  • Anpa — A website operations platform with a connected-site API, operator workspace, and Wellspring demo.
  • Tweet-GPT — A character-level GPT built from scratch in PyTorch, running live in the browser via ONNX.
  • ImageToCity — A live React Three Fiber demo that rebuilds any photo as a 3D night city — one instanced draw call.

Tools

  • Engineering: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node, Python, Tailwind CSS, Stripe, Sanity, Resend
  • 3D & motion: Blender, Cinema 4D, React Three Fiber / three.js, DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, Premiere Pro
  • AI & tooling: Vercel AI SDK, PyTorch, ONNX, ComfyUI (custom LoRA pipelines)

Education

B.A. Political Science, Baruch College — summa cum laude, 2023

Typeset on the site it links to — michaelrowejones.com/resume