Summary
Michael Guantonio is an ambitious technical leader with 15 years of experience driving architecture, developer experience, and engineering transformation at scale. As VP and Dojo Experience Owner at PNC, he has blended hands-on engineering with product leadership to embed modern practices—microservices, event-driven design, Policy-as-Code, and CI/CD—into large enterprise delivery. He’s known for fostering cultures of experimentation and pragmatic learning, modeling engagement using social network graph theory and creating flagship coaching artifacts like the Kaizen Retrospective app. A former core engineer, he rearchitected foundational systems (including a healthcare clearinghouse) and built shared design systems and contract-driven APIs to improve reliability and speed. Based in Greater Pittsburgh, he pairs an analytic, experiment-minded approach with a focus on code clarity and measurable outcomes. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex architectural concepts into repeatable developer practices that shorten time-to-production.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at PennWest Edinboro
Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Community College of Beaver County