Mike Coetzee
Head Of Product Design at Aptos Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Coetzee is a Head of Product Design with 11 years leading product and design teams across early- and growth-stage startups, currently shaping design strategy at Aptos Labs. He brings deep experience in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, DTC and consumer software, with strengths in product thinking, design systems, interaction and visual design. A former designer-turned-manager who often served as “designer #1,” he’s skilled at turning ambiguous, complex systems into scalable product experiences and teams. His Columbia degree in Financial Economics informs a data-aware approach to product tradeoffs and roadmap prioritization. Outside of work he keeps a playful side—aspiring to be a professional Simon Says coach—hinting at a leadership style that values clarity, engagement, and culture.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Financial Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Financial Economics at Columbia University
Italian, hawaiian pidgin
Github Skills (47)
monitoring10
dashboard10
mysql10
command-line-interface10
grafana10
analytics10
prometheus10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
postgresql9
observability9
azure-cli9
business-intelligence9
go9
azure-kubernetes-service9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Michael-Coetzee/rfid-area-access
Jul 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
raspberry-pipythonraspberryusbsqlite3
Michael-Coetzee/test-jenkins-terraform
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:112 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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