Mike Bowler
Coach And Trainer For Agile, Technical, And Human Behaviour at Gargoyle Software Inc.
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorMike Bowler is a seasoned coach and trainer who has spent over 23 years helping teams and leaders accelerate delivery by blending agile and lean practices with deep technical expertise and an understanding of human behaviour. As founder of Gargoyle Software Inc. he has worked with organizations from startups to Fortune 500s—clients include Royal Bank of Canada, Ford, Capital One, Toyota and Careem—bringing pragmatic process and technical improvements. He has led and architected software teams and platforms across Java, Ruby and .NET stacks, and has hands-on experience moving systems through growth and platform transitions. Mike’s background includes director-level roles in insurance tech where he set interconnection standards and represented his company on national technical committees, showing his ability to bridge engineering, industry policy, and operations. He combines practical training with coaching, helping teams adopt Kanban and agile at scale, informed by decades of delivery experience. Based in Kelowna, BC, he brings a rare mix of technical seniority, organizational influence, and people-focused coaching that consistently turns effort into predictable value.
24 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (8)
html10
javas10
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javascript10
html-parsing10
java10
testing10
web-development9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mikebowler/jekyll_jirametrics
Oct 2024 - Jul 2026
Documentation for the JiraMetrics tool
Contributions:1 PR, 86 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
mikebowler/jirametrics
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
A tool to extract data from Jira and either generate reports or export to CSV files
Contributions:25 releases, 659 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 4 months
export-to-csvjira
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