Michael Niessner
EVP, CTO at Triumph Financial, Inc.
Key Biscayne, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Niessner is an experienced technology leader with 17 years building and scaling freight and payments software, currently serving as EVP and CTO at Triumph (Nasdaq: TFIN) after leading the TriumphPay engineering organization. He progressed from hands-on principal engineer roles to executive leadership, combining deep systems and product-level knowledge with operational delivery across startups and fintech acquisitions. Based in Key Biscayne, Florida, he has a Computer Science degree from UIUC and a track record of modernizing payments and freight workflows to simplify complex, regulated domain logic. Known for turning legacy processes into streamlined, cloud-native platforms, he balances strategic roadmap thinking with technical credibility and a preference for pragmatic, measurable outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (3)
double9
testing7
ruby5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mniessner/mniessner.github.io
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
mniessner/dotfiles
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
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