Michael Medvedev holding guitar

Michael Medvedev

Software Engineer

I'm an entrepreneur, engineer, musician, and snowboarder. I am the founder of Gilded Guitars and more recently, infatuated with programming. I build with the goal of impacting millions for the better.

I'm open sourcing my life, tracking every activity I do, to visualize passion.

"Little by little, one travels far." — J.R.R. Tolkien

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Technology Stack

React React
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Node.js Node JS
FastAPI FastAPI
Supabase Supabase
Vite Vite
docker Docker
Javascript Javascript
Typescript Typescript
HTML HTML
CSS CSS
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React React
Python Python
Node.js Node JS
FastAPI FastAPI
Supabase Supabase
Vite Vite
docker Docker
Javascript Javascript
Typescript Typescript
HTML HTML
CSS CSS
Azure Azure

Projects

Ikonic

Built a Trip Planning app to help coordinate plans with my friends

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Python
FastAPI
Supabase
PostgreSQL

Lock-In

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Lock-In is an app that literally pays you to be productive. Bet on yourself

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Typescript
Python
FastAPI
Supabase
PostgreSQL

Reforger

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Built a CLI tool that reconstructs a frontend codebase given a url

Javascript

Personal Website

Built this website you are currently on with only Javascript, HTML, CSS

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HTML
CSS
Supabase
PostgreSQL

Gilded Guitars

The Beginning

From the moment I first picked up a guitar at 14 years old, I knew I had found something special. The instrument became an extension of my creativity, a way to express emotions that words could never capture.

During high school, I’d stay up hours after dark with a guitar in my lap, entranced by this magical piece of wood, playing and listening to as much music as I could.

This unsatiable curiosity birthed my lifelong journey as a musician and taught me discipline, perseverance, and a deep love for the Art of Detail.

It wasn’t long before I began to tinker.

Two Guitars
Guitar Neck Stamp

The Birth of Gilded Guitars

I was sixteen when I walked into a local guitar shop and spotted a woman holding a pale white Fender Jazzmaster, dusty, worn, and fitted with seashell knobs. I offered her $400 on the spot, and she accepted.

Without any real knowledge, I took the entire guitar apart, cleaned it, photographed every detail, and somehow put it all back together. I listed it for $4,500.

It sold for $4,000, a fortune to a sixteen-year-old. That moment sparked my love for finding, fixing, and bringing old guitars back to life.

That was the beginning of Gilded Guitars. I've sold over 500 guitars since then, achieving over $500k in revenue in the first three years.

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The Journey

It started as a yearly tradition. A weekend escape to Vermont with friends and family.

I was 14 when my friends convinced me to trade skis for a snowboard, but my real love for riding came years later.

In college, my friend and future co-founder Johnny talked me into spending all my money on a brand-new board and riding with him at Mount Southington, CT. We couldn’t afford lift tickets, so we snuck in ... and that day changed everything

It was the first time I’d seen people hit the park on snowboards, the freedom of movement, the control, the board moving as an extension of them. I knew right then that’s what I wanted to achieve.

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The Birth of Passion

I started doing everything I could to ride more. Mount Southington, Thunder Ridge. Eventually, I discovered Big Snow, an indoor snowboarding park, and thats where my riding transformed.

Those sessions taught me discipline and the art of progression, but everything changed again when I did a backcountry trip in the Adirondacks in upstate New York.

It was there that I expanded my love for snowboarding beyond the park into what Jeremy Jones calls the Art of Shralpnalism. Climbing mountains, feeling the raw forces of Mother Nature, and earning your turns.

Every winter I now spend every weekend exploring all the hidden treasures that New England has to offer, finding secret spots like The Church at Sugarbush or climbing to abandoned lifts at Killington.

Snowboarding Video from Whistler, BC 2023

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