Irene Yachbes
Sr Manager - Collaboration Tools Productivity Tools Engineering And Data Insights (CIO Toolbox IBM)
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolIrene Yachbes is a seasoned technology leader with 10+ years driving complex programs, products, and cross-functional teams at IBM, where she currently leads Collaboration and Productivity Tools Engineering and Data Insights for the CIO Toolbox. She blends engineering, product, and data expertise to deliver secure, user-centered collaboration platforms—owning vendor relationships, global stakeholder alignment, and analytics-driven tooling decisions for services like Slack, Webex, GitHub and Mural. Her background spans product strategy for IBM Research, UX-led cloud application delivery, and earlier roles scaling customer success and innovation in startups and aerospace, giving her a rare mix of systems engineering rigor and human-centered design sensibility. Irene is data-minded—building data lakes and custom analytics to surface tooling usage and inform operational and business choices across a large enterprise. She also co-founded The Mentor Project, reflecting a long-standing commitment to mentoring and community outreach beyond her corporate impact. Her M.S. in Technical Management from Johns Hopkins and hands-on spacecraft test engineering roots underscore both technical depth and a bias for disciplined execution.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityStuyvesant High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (25)
console10
windows10
linux10
bash10
bsd10
android10
command-line10
macos10
shell10
documentation10
cli10
subcommands9
chatbot9
perl8
jekyll7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ireaneus/aws-saa
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
ireaneus/linux-cheat-sheets
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
Linux command line cheat sheets website
Contributions:22 PRs, 194 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
manjarolinuxcheat-sheetslinux-commandsheets
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