Andy Michel
Senior Director Of Product Management, Missionforce AI at Salesforce
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Michel is a product and AI leader with 12+ years of hands-on experience spanning research, engineering, startups, and defense programs, now shaping AI gaming and safety strategy at Qualcomm. He combines a deep technical pedigree in explainable and adversarial AI—anchored by PhD-level research and an XAI startup—with program and product management experience that moves on-device GenAI from lab to commercialization. Previously he led AI R&D roadmaps and tactical simulation engineering for F-35 training at Lockheed Martin and advised startups and ventures on AI, 5G, and systems integration. Based in San Diego, he balances technical architecture with business strategy and budgeted program delivery, and has a track record of translating peer-reviewed research into deployable, auditable AI systems. A less obvious thread through his career is repeated role-switching between founder/engineer and corporate program manager, which gives him both builder instincts and the governance mindset to scale AI responsibly.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Systems Engineering (On Leave), Master of Engineering - MEng Systems Engineering (On Leave) at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Florida Atlantic UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Haitian Creole, Spanish, French, English
Github Skills (21)
database10
benchmarking9
storage-engine9
security8
key-value-store8
machine-learning7
micro-orm7
hpcc6
petapoco6
latex5
driver5
npoco4
pose-estimation4
hash4
openface4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Andymic/Streaming-Video-Over-UDP
Sep 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 23 pushes in 8 months
Andymic/Subzero
Jun 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
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