Summary
Michael Novi is an engineering manager and seasoned technology leader with 12+ years of experience guiding products from concept to production in entrepreneurial environments. He blends hands-on engineering and architecture with product strategy, having led teams through agile transformations, microservices and serverless migrations, and scalable SaaS platforms. Michael has held senior roles from VP of Engineering and CTO to founder/consultant, building processes, recruiting distributed teams, and shipping high-burst, message-driven systems on AWS. He also advises startups through his consulting practice, focusing on MVP definition, UX/scalability, and growth-stage engineering practices. Based in Durham, NC, he pairs an MBA in Marketing and Accounting with a CS degree, giving him a rare mix of technical depth and business acumen. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of operationalizing development—from CI/TDD adoption to Terraform/ECS/Docker deployments—so teams can reliably scale.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ledyard High School
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
MBA, Marketing and Accounting, MBA, Marketing and Accounting at New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business