Summary
Mike Stenhouse is a design-focused engineer with roughly 15 years of hands-on experience and two decades of product-design practice, blending research, prototyping, interface design and design leadership across B2B SaaS. He has taken companies from zero to one multiple times and has shipped products in technical domains including machine learning, geospatial analytics and NLP, often for high-stakes fields from counter-terrorism to video production. At companies from early-stage startups to C-suite design roles, he has built prototypes that raised seed rounds, fostered cross-disciplinary collaboration with engineering and data science, and contributed full-stack code when needed. Based in Oeiras, Lisbon, he pairs a rare academic background (Computer Science plus Ancient History and an MPhil in Egyptology) with pragmatic product instincts, which helps him uncover human-centered insights in complex technical spaces. Known for instituting a culture of design and mentoring teams, he excels at turning ambiguous research into tangible, market-ready interfaces.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MPhil(b) Egyptology, MPhil(b) Egyptology at University of Birmingham