Michael Leyfer
Senior Director Of Software Development at XR Extreme Reach
Needham, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Leyfer is a senior technical leader with over two decades of hands-on engineering experience and eight years in senior management, currently leading globally distributed teams as Senior Director of Software Development in Needham, MA. He has a strong track record building and scaling multi-team organizations that power high-volume, revenue-critical B2B platforms—most recently overseeing systems responsible for up to $70M in annual revenue. Equally comfortable in product strategy and deep technical execution, he combines architectural oversight with talent development, hiring, and operational rigor across onshore/offshore teams. His work spans ad-tech, media distribution, healthcare, and financial systems, and he has driven pragmatic AI and automation initiatives—implementing AWS video tagging and Azure document intelligence to cut manual effort and speed delivery. A former hands-on principal engineer and early Java contributor in enterprise identity and clinical systems, he brings uncommon domain breadth and an appetite for applying Generative AI to real-world production problems.
7 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Biology/Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Biology/Biotechnology at UMass BostonMaster of Science (MS) Computer Systems Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Systems Engineering at Boston University
Github Skills (39)
visibility10
instrumentation9
robot9
accelerator8
npm8
gns38
controller7
monitoring7
apm7
sd-wan7
vms7
opentelemetry7
automation6
aws6
acceleration6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gleyfer/Riverbed-Community-Toolkit
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Toolkit for solution engineering
Contributions:15 pushes in 8 months
engineering
gleyfer/aviatrix-easy-onprem
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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