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Events
Upcoming: React Miami
Learn and connect with 500 React developers from around the world while soaking up the famous Miami sunshine! Discover the latest in our ecosystem and gain skills for building fully comprehensive React applications — from the frontend and beyond.
Date: April 17-18, 2025
Location: Miami, Fl
Past: Dev Writers Retreat & Unconference
DEV | WRITERS | RETREAT is a first-of-its-kind experiment in pushing forward the state of coders-who-write and writers-who-code. Helping developers, and people in tech connect and share knowledge easily. Hassle-free blogging and community experience for the creators of tomorrow.
Date: November 7, 2022
Location: Miami, Fl
Community
1909 Board of Directors
1909 is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the holistic growth of entrepreneurs, small business owners, creative freelancers, and innovators.
Role: Vice Chair
Duration: 2022 - Present
Tech Hub Foundation Board of Directors
The Tech Hub Foundation is a 501(c)3 charitable organization committed to nurturing our tech community and promoting STEM education throughout South Florida.
Role: Chair
Duration: 2018 - Present
Work
Developer Health OS
The Developer Health OS is a guide to supporting health in tech and finding restful work through burnout recovery, burnout prevention, and optimium performance.
Role: Co-Author, Developer
Tools: Astro, Vercel
Talks
Tech Broke My Heart
Drawing from my own experiences with stress and burnout in the tech industry, I emphasize the importance of addressing health issues among developers, advocating for rest, self-care, and effective time management, and introduced G2I's Developer Health Program to raise awareness and provide resources for preventing burnout.
Presented at: Epic Web Conf
Date: April 11, 2024
Executing on Inspiration with The Vercel Stack
Inspiration can strike at any moment and even surprise you with the direction it will take you. Seizing this opportunity requires the confidence, speed, and determination to execute and deliver on your vision. Learn how leveraging Next.js and Vercel turned the dream of hosting a global React developers conference in Miami into a reality by optimizing for the most important metric of all — AFK.
Presented at: Next.js Conf
Date: October 27, 2023
Contact
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Email: michelle.bakels@gmail.com
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