MICHELLE BAKELS

Let Me Show You Something

A new fast-paced, community-driven developer meetup in South Florida! Five devs take the mic for five minutes each to share something they’re genuinely excited about — a tool, project, function, fix, or anything else dev-related.

Date: Monthly

Location: West Palm Beach, Fl

AI Engineer: Miami

Join the first AI Engineer Edition in Miami - a community-driven conference, inspired and supported by the team behind the AI Engineer World's Fair. This two-day event brings together AI engineers, CTOs, and VPs of AI to connect, learn, and engineer the future of AI.

Date: April 20-21, 2025

Location: Miami, Fl

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 23-24, 2026

Location: Miami, Fl

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.

Duration: 2022 - Present

Tech Hub Board of Directors

South Florida Tech Hub is a non-profit membership association dedicated to strengthening the tech landscape of South Florida and Treasure Coast.

Duration: 2025 - Present

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

Blog

A space to share long-form thoughts, ideas, experimentations, and explorations.

Topics: Community, Software Development, Public Speaking

GitHub

Check out the latest projects I've been working on.

Tools: React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Astro

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

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