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.
11 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
Web application providing tail functionality. Written in Node.js
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
node-jstailnodejsweb-application
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Michael Bowman - Software Engineer at Mighty Acorn Digital