Summary
Mike Hugo is a seasoned technology leader with 17 years of experience building and shipping software across industries including life sciences, healthcare, finance, retail, and medical devices. Currently Senior Director of Technology at Certara and founder of WhenWorksForYou.com, he blends hands-on engineering with product-focused delivery to get solutions to market quickly. He has led teams, architected end-to-end systems, and driven data integration and NER work at scale during roles at Entagen and Thomson Reuters. Comfortable across the full SDLC, his background ranges from Java/Groovy/Grails web stacks to big-data platforms like Hadoop and Accumulo, plus cloud deployments and CI/CD automation. Equally at home mentoring developers or rolling up his sleeves to write code, he brings entrepreneurial grit from founding startups and technical depth from enterprise modernization projects. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs an MS in Software Engineering with a track record of turning complex domain problems into practical, production-ready systems.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Software Engineering, MS Software Engineering at University of Minnesota
BA Management Computer Science Spanish, BA Management Computer Science Spanish at Saint John's University