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I'm Michael Kunze, a startup product engineer based in London, open to remote or contract work. I bring 10+ years of experience shipping complete features from idea to production in small teams. I thrive on owning ambiguous problems, designing UX, implementing front-end and back-end systems, and iterating quickly with users. I have an extensive background in conversational AI, NLP tooling, and hybrid mobile apps. I'm comfortable working in unfamiliar codebases and learning new tools as required to ship features. I'm particularly effective in early-stage or lean teams where engineers wear multiple hats.…I'm Michael Kunze, a startup product engineer based in London, open to remote or contract work. I bring 10+ years of experience shipping complete features from idea to production in small teams. I thrive on owning ambiguous problems, designing UX, implementing front-end and back-end systems, and iterating quickly with users. I have an extensive background in conversational AI, NLP tooling, and hybrid mobile apps. I'm comfortable working in unfamiliar codebases and learning new tools as required to ship features. I'm particularly effective in early-stage or lean teams where engineers wear multiple hats.

Michael Kunze

Full Stack Developer, Front-End Developer, Back-End Developer, +2

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I'm Michael Kunze, a startup product engineer based in London, open to remote or contract work. I bring 10+ years of experience shipping complete features from idea to production in small teams. I thrive on owning ambiguous problems, designing UX, implementing front-end and back-end systems, and iterating quickly with users. I have an extensive background in conversational AI, NLP tooling, and hybrid mobile apps. I'm comfortable working in unfamiliar codebases and learning new tools as required to ship features. I'm particularly effective in early-stage or lean teams where engineers wear multiple hats.…I'm Michael Kunze, a startup product engineer based in London, open to remote or contract work. I bring 10+ years of experience shipping complete features from idea to production in small teams. I thrive on owning ambiguous problems, designing UX, implementing front-end and back-end systems, and iterating quickly with users. I have an extensive background in conversational AI, NLP tooling, and hybrid mobile apps. I'm comfortable working in unfamiliar codebases and learning new tools as required to ship features. I'm particularly effective in early-stage or lean teams where engineers wear multiple hats.

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I’m Michael Kunze, a startup product engineer based in London, open to remote or contract work. I bring 10+ years of experience shipping complete features from idea to production in small teams. I thrive on owning ambiguous problems, designing UX, implementing front-end and back-end systems, and iterating quickly with users.

I have an extensive background in conversational AI, NLP tooling, and hybrid mobile apps. I’m comfortable working in unfamiliar codebases and learning new tools as required to ship features. I’m particularly effective in early-stage or lean teams where engineers wear multiple hats.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

Work Experience

Lead Developer at Iconiq

January 1, 2020 - Present

Built and maintained TextCeleste web and iOS app used in production; designed frontend UX and component structure in React/Ionic; developed Python backend delivering astrology and NLP-driven features; implemented a chart rendering engine generating dynamic SVG visuals; designed premium subscription features and a compatibility scoring system; maintained the Roblox game Chat with Kuki; built AutoScope Web App MVP.

Lead Developer at Pandorabots

January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2020

Developed conversational platform capabilities used by large-scale chatbots; built integrations and tooling supporting dialogue systems and NLP workflows; worked across infrastructure, APIs, and product features; built real-time human-in-the-loop interview streaming system; implemented ML-based conversation auto-suggestion tooling.