Summary
Mike Danaher is a senior product manager and full-stack software leader with over a decade of experience turning user-centered ideas into production-grade web and mobile products. He combines hands-on engineering chops across JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Python, Java, and cloud platforms with calm, psychologically safe team leadership to boost delivery cadence and reduce burnout. Mike has led cross-functional teams in highly regulated and high-scale environments—from modernizing 25-year-old government systems to enabling front-end teams at CVS Health to ship experiences at Fortune 4 scale. Early work building custom alumni and scholarship tools from spreadsheets to CMS hacks gives him a pragmatic, user-first lens for solving complex problems with simple solutions. He’s equally at home prototyping apps in weeks as he is mentoring engineers and shaping product strategy to multiply team impact.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Applied Technology, Master of Science (MS), Applied Technology at DePaul University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Communications & Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Communications & Economics at Northwestern University