Hi, I’m Michael Todd.

At 4 years old, my daughter Ruby already has it figured out. We’ll drive by a construction site, and she’ll say, “They need a girl, and it’s me. That’s a Ruby problem.”

Builders like us take ownership. We don’t see a pile of rubble. We envision the structure rebuilt.

Since I was her age, I’ve been set on creating. That drive led me to earn my degree in journalism in 2011. It led me to help establish the nonprofit Hear Nebraska as its first employee in 2012.

It led me to learn how to code in 2014. I landed my first web development job at Lemonly. It was there that I created hundreds of immersive, interactive infographics for clients such as Marriott and internal tools built with Ruby on Rails that are still in use today.

Joining my first team of developers at Blend Interactive, I helped to implement large CMS projects using platforms such as Optimizely (formerly Episerver) built on Microsoft’s .NET framework.

At DonorDrive, Iʼm the design systems lead and responsible for developing new features as well as maintaining our online fundraising software that serves hundreds of nonprofit clients and hundreds of thousands of constituents.

My greatest attribute is empathy and I make it my mission to improve the working lives of my teammates in whatever ways I can.