Max Binder
Lead Technical Program Manager at Wikimedia Foundation
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Binder is a Lead Technical Program Manager with a decade of experience shaping team effectiveness and program delivery at the Wikimedia Foundation, where he drives OKRs, SLO-led cultural change, and volunteer community feedback processes for one of the world’s largest open collaborations. He blends facilitation, data-informed process coaching, and hands-on program management across distributed, 100% remote engineering organizations, mentoring newer TPMs and coordinating cross-department prioritization. Passionate about delivering user value, Max pairs Agile and open-source sensibilities with practical tooling expertise (JIRA, Asana, Phabricator) and a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. A former performer turned technologist, he brings an unusual mix of communication finesse and systems thinking—often described by stakeholders as a multilingual interpreter who helps diverse developers understand one another.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Goldsmiths College, U. of LondonBachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Harvard UniversityHigh School, High School at The School for Young Performers
English, Turkish, Spanish, Danish
Github Skills (3)
phabricator9
mysql4
intervention1
Github contributions (3)
mbinder-wmf/phlogiston
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:19 pushes in 1 month
phabricatormysqlreportingdenormalize
wikimedia/phlogiston
Jan 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:199 commits, 18 PRs, 181 pushes in 3 years
phabricatormysqlreportingdenormalize
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