Summary
Randy Menna is a seasoned software leader with nearly four decades of development experience and over eighteen years in management, currently leading a team at HERE Technologies from the Greater Chicago area. He has founded and led multiple startups and consultancies—scaling engineering organizations to hundreds of engineers and delivering products across mobile, SaaS, and embedded domains for customers like Qualcomm. Randy blends hands-on technical depth (kernel, device drivers, boot PROMs, full-stack web and mobile) with strategic product and system design, having served as CTO, founding engineer, and principal architect across industries from healthcare to logistics. He’s repeatedly delivered on aggressive schedules, built HIPAA-compliant messaging and mobile clients, and established cloud and CI/CD practices for distributed teams. Notably, his background combines an MS in Computer Science with a BA in Behavioral Sciences, giving him a rare mix of technical rigor and people-centered leadership.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MSCS, Computer Science, MSCS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Behavioral Sciences, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Behavioral Sciences at University of Chicago