Summary
Michele Ursino is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 25 years of experience building UI-driven products, cloud services, and developer teams across startups and enterprises. Currently a Technical Fellow in Digital Products Engineering at General Motors, he previously led Messaging Platform UI work as a Senior Staff Engineer at LinkedIn and drove cloud modernization and React-based experiences at Leica Geosystems and OpenTable. He blends hands-on TypeScript and frontend expertise with architecture and DevOps experience—having led large cloud migrations, CI adoption, and performance scaling to tens of millions of monthly users. Michele is also a long-time educator and cofounder of Silicon Villas, mentoring emerging engineers in Silicon Valley, which reflects his commitment to talent development beyond product delivery. Comfortable moving between strategic technical leadership and deep implementation, he has a track record of rebooting engineering organizations and shipping reliable, user-focused interfaces. Trained with advanced computer science studies in Milan, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic, product-minded execution.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
Doctorate Computer Science, Doctorate Computer Science at Politecnico di Milano
English, Italian