Summary
Michael Bobyr is a Senior Technical Program Manager with 11+ years of IT experience who has progressed from hands-on QA to leading multimillion-dollar programs and teams of up to 70 FTE across e-commerce, healthcare, telco, retail, and automotive. Known for turning Red programs Green, he combines CEO-level ownership with deep technical judgment—comfortable making trade-offs, mentoring engineers, and coordinating complex multi-vendor rollouts. He’s led cloud migrations, platform consolidations, and greenfield implementations at companies from Wayfair and Bose to Google, driving delivery, risk mitigation, and executive stakeholder alignment. An integrator by temperament, Michael excels at uniting distributed teams and building testing and quality practices from scratch. He also contributes to the popular TypeScript type-challenges repo by improving test coverage for edge cases, reflecting a continued hands-on interest in developer tooling and type safety. Based in San Jose, he pairs a PhD background in bioenergy with a pragmatic delivery mindset that thrives under pressure.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Environmental Control and Audit, Master's degree, Environmental Control and Audit at National University of Food Technologies
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioenergy and Sustainable Resource Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioenergy and Sustainable Resource Engineering at Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Bachelor's degree, Ecology, Environment Protection and Balanced Natural Resource Management, Bachelor's degree, Ecology, Environment Protection and Balanced Natural Resource Management at Kremenchuk State Polytechnical University