Michael Torres
Product Innovation Director
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Torres is a product innovation leader with 10+ years building and scaling digital products across government, enterprise, and retail sectors from the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently directing product innovation at Acubed after leading product strategy and platform teams at Airbus, he blends hands-on UX and front-end roots with senior leadership in product and operations. He’s led cross-functional teams through large transformations—migrating legacy systems to agile products, growing product organizations rapidly, and winning major retailer deals against tech giants. At 18F he drove cost-saving open-source procurement experiments and helped modernize state eligibility systems, demonstrating a knack for pragmatic innovation in regulated environments. Known for shipping high-throughput platforms (including a digital coupon system processing millions of daily transactions) he pairs technical fluency with business impact. He holds a BS in Math from Notre Dame and brings a rare mix of early engineering craftsmanship and strategic product stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, BerkeleySan Francisco State UniversityBS Math, BS Math at University of Notre Dame
Github Skills (66)
pair-programming10
documented10
active10
health10
lms9
recurly9
agile9
doh9
devrel9
threshold9
policies9
product-management9
project-planning8
agile-development8
django7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
18F/agile
Mar 2016 - Mar 2018
Agile Principles and Practice, documented by the 18F Agile Guild
Contributions:4 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years
principlesagiledocumentedproject-planning18f
18F/micropurchase-auctions
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:127 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 3 months
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