Lead Technical Program Manager at Wikimedia Foundation
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Max 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 London
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Harvard University
High School, High School at The School for Young Performers
Contributions:199 commits, 18 PRs, 181 pushes in 3 years
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Max Binder - Lead Technical Program Manager at Wikimedia Foundation