Michael Mcclenaghan
Director, Product Development at Vertical City
Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Mcclenaghan is a seasoned software leader with 17 years of experience directing product development and engineering teams across startups and enterprise organizations. As Director of Product Development at Vertical City, he blends hands-on Ruby on Rails development (used since 2008) with agile coaching to build cross-functional teams that own products end-to-end. He has a proven track record of turning stalled projects into on-time, feature-rich deliveries—famously teaching Rails to a team mid-project at the Alberta Motor Association. Michael excels at hiring, mentoring, and scaling delivery processes across diverse domains from media and finance to telecom and healthcare. Based in Alberta, he pairs technical depth with pragmatic team-building, often stepping into transitional roles to stabilize and accelerate engineering outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Geography, BSc, Geography at University of VictoriaBTech, Computing Science, BTech, Computing Science at Thompson Rivers University
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Github Skills (31)
airbrake8
obsidian6
heatmap6
api6
waffle6
python6
circleci6
ruby6
hubot6
extjs6
here-api6
javascript6
container6
amazon5
thread5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mm53bar/Hashwords
Apr 2009 - Aug 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 4 months
mm53bar/aquarium
Jul 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
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