Summary
Michael Bowman is an experienced software engineer and empathetic technical leader with over two decades of practice building and scaling web and cloud-based applications for both private industry and critical government services. He has led distributed engineering organizations of up to 30 people, managed multi-team roadmaps at scale (including delivering a bilingual, high-traffic IRS Direct File application to millions of taxpayers), and rebuilt platform capabilities across retail, media, and defense sectors. Michael combines hands-on full-stack development and architecture with people-first team building—mentoring managers, growing internship pipelines, and teaching programming as an adjunct professor. He’s adept at coordinating complex cross-functional work (product, design, legal/translation, and QA) to ship reliable, maintainable systems under tight timelines and regulatory constraints. Based in Dayton, Ohio, he has a strong track record of maturing engineering processes and fostering inclusive, data-driven teams that measurably improve customer-facing KPIs.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Wright State University
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Miami University