Summary
Michael 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
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
San Francisco State University
BS, Math, BS, Math at University of Notre Dame