Michael Paler is a seasoned technology professional with more than 20 years of experience in delivering sophisticated and practical web-based business solutions. He is highly passionate about embracing complex challenges and assuming significant responsibilities, resulting in a long track record of dedication, focus, and outstanding results. Michael possesses exceptional written, verbal, and visual presentation skills that enable him to communicate research and solution designs of appropriate scope and scalability. He is a hands-on person who end-to-end actively codes, documents and ships product along with his teammates.

Michael has exhibited exceptional versatility and proficiency in a wide range of open and closed-source technologies, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) applied to various business systems, including front-end user interaction/experience, content management (CMS), customer resource management (CRM), and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Furthermore, his work perspective is broadened by his life experiences, including publishing undergraduate research in an academic journal, running a fine art printing business, and founding and continuing to operate the web's oldest and largest surfboard design & construction community.

Michael graduated from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science degree in Botany/Plant Biology. He also attended the Pomfret School, Allen-Stevenson School, and Trinity School in New York City. He is the Co-Founder, Director of Technology & Software Engineer at CivicSolar.com and a former Co-Founder & Lead Developer at Veneerstudio.com as well as a former Senior Web Developer at kirshenbaum bond + partners san francisco.