Mike Sheridan

Front-end · Founder · Tallahassee, FL

Mike Sheridan

I've spent 20+ years building front-end and full-stack products for companies like Cisco, Coca-Cola, Disney, McKesson, and Florida Blue — and the last stretch founding Grey Reef Labs, where I partner with subject-matter experts to turn real industry problems into software that makes money. Remote from Tallahassee. Obsessed with clarity, shipping, and aligned incentives. Let's talk.

Mike Sheridan

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What do you actually build?

Production web apps and SaaS products — React/TypeScript front ends, full-stack when needed, and the product judgment around them. Career-long focus on well-designed, accessible, standards-based interfaces; more recently multi-tenant SaaS, AI-adjacent tools, and SME partnership products.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Redux
  • GraphQL
  • REST APIs
  • Postgres
  • HTML / CSS
  • Accessibility
  • UX / usability
  • SaaS architecture
  • AI product design
  • Team leadership
  • Remote delivery
  • Go-to-market
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Redux
  • GraphQL
  • REST APIs
  • Postgres
  • HTML / CSS
  • Accessibility
  • UX / usability
  • SaaS architecture
  • AI product design
  • Team leadership
  • Remote delivery
  • Go-to-market

Selected work

Things I've been building

A mix of studio work, partner products, and experiments — all aimed at turning domain expertise into something people can use and pay for.

Career

Experience

Agency roots, long corporate delivery stints, then founder mode — always hands-on with the presentation layer and the product.

  1. Data Computer Corporation of America

    Jan 2025 – Present

    UI Developer · MTF DM Project

    Tallahassee, FL

    • React UI development on the MTF DM project
    • Accessibility: Testing and Compliance

  2. Grey Reef Labs

    Sep 2023 – Present

    Founder / Developer

    Tallahassee, FL

    • Technology startup building SaaS and partnership products
    • React, full-stack, and product work end-to-end
    • SME monetization model: build with experts, share upside

  3. Change Healthcare / Optum

    Sep 2022 – Sep 2023

    Lead React Developer

    Nashville, TN (Remote)

    • Lead developer for a React UI component library
    • Planning, scheduling, and coding/design standards
    • Managed an offshore team; ran Scrum and delivery

  4. Florida Blue

    Sep 2020 – Aug 2022

    React Developer

    Jacksonville, FL (Remote)

    • React + Redux on a large-scale production application
    • Front-end focus with visibility into backend systems
    • Team lead as needed: schedule, workload, other React devs

  5. Injured Workers Finance

    2018 – 2020

    Founder / Developer

    Tallahassee, FL

    • Micro-loan product; React, Express, Firebase / MERN
    • Responsive HTML/CSS; RPA with UiPath for automation

  6. PGA of America

    Jan 2019 – Dec 2019

    React Developer

    Palm Beach Gardens, FL (Remote)

    • Full-stack work across multiple sites; React + GraphQL
    • Static sites with Jekyll; AWS, Jest/Enzyme, styled-components

  7. Florida Blue

    Mar 2016 – Jan 2017

    UI/UX Developer

    Jacksonville, FL (Remote)

    • Rapid prototype development across stacks including MERN

  8. McKesson Corporation

    Apr 2008 – Jan 2016

    Web Front End Developer

    Alpharetta, GA → Remote Tallahassee

    • Lead front-end on BEA AquaLogic / Oracle WebCenter portal
    • HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XSL; portal security & communities
    • Usability testing, rapid prototypes, UX initiatives

  9. Avenue A | Razorfish

    May 2005 – Dec 2006

    Sr. Interface Developer

    Atlanta, GA

    • Lead developer on corporate site design/redesign projects
    • Managed full-time and contract developers under tight budgets
    • Presentation layer, accessibility, middle-tier integration

  10. Razorfish / SBI & earlier

    1995 – 2008

    Interface Developer → Sr. / Contract

    San Francisco · NY · Tampa · Tallahassee

    • Cisco.com redesign, Genentech, LADWP, Renesas, and more
    • Contract work via Razorfish/Punchcut/Sapient for Disney, Bank of America, News Corp, FontShop, VSP
    • Open Finance Technologies (financial sector sites); early Tallahassee web work and training

Education

Florida State University

  • B.S. Political Science, Summer 1996 (3.975 major GPA)
  • Graduate work in Internet Development, Fall 1996 – Fall 1998

About

A short version of the longer story

I'm a front-end engineer and founder with 20+ years building interfaces and products people actually use. The résumé version: React lead roles, long stints at McKesson and Florida Blue, agency years at Razorfish shipping work for Cisco, Disney, Coca-Cola, and others. The real version: I like messy domain problems and making them clear in the UI.

Grey Reef Labs is how I work now. Partner with experts who already have trust and distribution, build the tool with them, and share in the outcome. I also ship standalone products when the path to revenue doesn't need a partner.

Based in Tallahassee, FL. I've worked remote successfully for most of my career — from McKesson through healthcare, PGA, and the studio. Highly effective communicator; track record of delivering quality work on time and within budget.

  • Honesty over hype

    Every score, projection, and claim should be true. Impressive is useless if it isn't accurate.

  • Ship, then refine

    Working software beats decks. Learn from users with something live, not another planning cycle.

  • Aligned incentives

    On the right deals, skin in the game. When you win, I win — that's the only structure that stays honest.

Connect

Let's build something useful

Have a product problem, a partnership idea, or a role that needs a senior builder who can lead and ship? Drop a note.

Email memike@mikesheridan.com