Michael Greenspan

CEO

Greater Toronto Area, Canada6 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in coaching engineers through self-doubt and overwhelm.
  • Led agile transformations for remote engineering teams.
  • Experienced in ADHD coaching for tech professionals.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Engineering Manager with expertise in coaching and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Coaching & MentoringInterpersonal CommunicationAdhd CoachingCommunityAgile Project ManagementLeadershipTeam Management

Other Skills

People ManagementAdult ADHDProductivityChange ManagementCulture ChangePerformance MetricsNegotiationAgile MethodologiesObject Oriented DesignSoftware DevelopmentSoftware DesignOOPTestingWeb DevelopmentProgramming

About

Software engineering is often framed as a technical discipline. But after years working with and managing engineers, I’ve become increasingly interested in something else: the inner game of engineering work. The struggles that don't show up in code reviews or design docs. Self-doubt. Overwhelm. The feeling of knowing you’re capable of more, but not quite being able to access it. These patterns show up especially often in engineers who think differently — including many with ADHD — but they’re far more common than most people realize. Over time I started writing and speaking about these themes, and having deeper conversations with engineers and engineering managers who recognized themselves in them. Those conversations have become some of the most meaningful work I do. Alongside my writing, I work privately with a small number of senior engineers and leaders who want to understand what’s getting in their way and move through it with more clarity and confidence. If something I write resonates strongly with you, feel free to reach out. — Michael

Experience

6 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 6 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Maven

Course Instructor

May 2025Present · 1 yr · Remote

  • Teaching a cohort-based course for ambitious Engineering Managers: "Build Your Engineering Management Operating System".
  • Sign up here: https://maven.com/management-deltas/may-2025-cohort

Tasktogether.dev

ADHD Coach for Senior Engineers and Leaders

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Remote

  • 🖥️ Virtual coworking community for software engineering professionals with ADHD
  • ⏱️ Hosts weekly 90-minute focus sessions with goal setting, quiet work time, and end-of-session check-ins
  • 💬 Active Slack community offering peer support, encouragement, and weekly challenges
  • 🧠 Designed for neurodivergent professionals (especially ADHD) to beat procrastination and stay motivated
  • 🌱 Helps members build sustainable focus habits and make remote work less isolating
  • 🚀 Launched in March 2025 and growing into a supportive, thriving space for ADHD minds in tech
  • More info at www.tasktogether.org
ADHD CoachingAdult ADHDCommunityProductivity

The complete engineer

Thinking Partner for Senior Software Engineers and Leaders

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Toronto, ON · Remote

  • I help senior ICs and engineering leaders move beyond overwhelm and self-doubt so they can confidently pursue work that brings them meaning and prosperity.
Coaching & MentoringInterpersonal CommunicationTeam ManagementPeople Management

Auvik networks inc.

Engineering Manager

Jan 2023Oct 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

  • Auvik is cloud based software for remote network monitoring and management.
  • I led two fully remote teams focused on enhancing remote client endpoint monitoring and management.
  • I Led the teams through an agile transformation with a focus on enabling the team to be productively focused on clear goals while remaining nimble enough to gracefully adapt as our roadmap matures. I also promoted two engineers to Senior Level.
Change ManagementCulture ChangeInterpersonal CommunicationTeam ManagementPeople ManagementCoaching & Mentoring+3

Appcues

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2022Dec 2022 · 8 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada (remote) · Remote

  • Appcues is a complete solution for measuring and improving product adoption.
  • I led a fully remote group of 9 people in Brazil, Canada, and the US (8 Software Engineers and one QA Engineer). The team was responsible for building Appcues' web SDK and builder tools using React and Redux.
  • During my time at Appcues:
  • I hired and onboarded four team members, growing the team from 5 to 9
  • I guided a Senior engineer to a promotion to Staff level, giving him the direction and support needed to successfully transition into that new role.
  • I provided support to a newly promoted Principal Engineer who was struggling to step away from the code and be productive given the more ambiguous requirements of his new level.
  • I led the team through a team split into two smaller more focused team, after growing the team from 5 to 9 people
NegotiationInterpersonal CommunicationTeam ManagementPeople ManagementCoaching & MentoringAgile Project Management+2

Roadmunk

Engineering Manager

Mar 2021Mar 2022 · 1 yr · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

  • Roadmunk is a SAAS-based end-to-end product roadmapping tool that helps companies align on their vision and strategy through beautiful board-room ready roadmaps.
  • My Responsibilities:
  • Leading the engineering team responsible for implementing Roadmunk's integrations with third party tools, such as Jira and Azure DevOps
  • This consists of hiring, project planning, building a collaborative dev culture and agile team processes, coaching and mentorship, and product planning as a member of a Product Triad
Interpersonal CommunicationTeam ManagementPeople Management

Enthusiast gaming

Director Of Technology

Jul 2018Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

  • Enthusiast Gaming is a publicly traded company that owns and operates some of the most famous gaming media sites on the internet and runs an ad network that processes billions of user transactions.
  • My Responsibilities:
  • Gathering requirements for ongoing product roadmap and organizing details for management use
  • Leading the engineering groups responsible for developing, maintaining, monetizing and reporting on sites with more than 200 million monthly page views, including destructoid.com, thesimsresource.com, and escapistmagazine.com
  • Staffing the engineering department, including sourcing, interviewing and mentoring all technical hires
NegotiationInterpersonal CommunicationTeam ManagementPeople Management

Mri software llc

Software Development Manager

Aug 2016Jun 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

  • Based in Cleveland, MRI Software is a global company with offices in the USA, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa, and the UK. They are a leading provider of real estate software applications across all industry verticals
  • I worked in the Toronto office as lead developer and manager of a distributed development team of 6 people (5 devs and a QA engineer) building a SAAS BI web portal and data warehouse using Tableau, SQL Server, C# .NET, Python, AngularJS, and AWS services. Team members were located in Toronto, Cleveland, and Atlanta, with additional stakeholders located in Sydney
  • I was originally hired as a Senior Developer at Cougar Software, and transitioned to management when MRI Software acquired Cougar
  • Post-acquisition, I lead and grew the development team through the transition to MRI's corporate processes, working closely with Product Management, PMO and Release Engineering to ensure that the team velocity did not slow down while we transitioned our architecture to MRI's on-prem datacenters, and that our product could adapt to MRI's new broader vision
Interpersonal CommunicationTeam ManagementPeople Management

Mri software llc (hired when it was cougar software)

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2014Aug 2016 · 2 yrs · Toronto, Canada Area

  • Developed an investment management REST API, an accompanying AngularJS front-end, and provided support to clients
  • Integrated Amazon Web Services (AWS) for scaling
  • Innovated internal and client deployment processes
  • Reduced technical debt and championed best practices
Interpersonal Communication

Broadridge investment management solutions

Software Developer

Mar 2013Aug 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

  • Broadridge acquired the Numerix product and team (see previous job). I continued working on the C# risk reporting engine.
Interpersonal Communication

Numerix

2 roles

Software Developer, Portfolio Analytics

Promoted

May 2011Mar 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

  • I worked on two projects at Numerix:
  • A scalable, multi-server financial trade-capture, portfolio management and risk reporting engine in C#, built using a SQL ORM developed in-house, with a rich WPF GUI client
  • A financial valuations API in C#, unmanaged C++ and Java
Interpersonal Communication

Associate Software Developer, Portfolio Analytics

Jun 2009May 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

Interpersonal Communication

York university

Software Developer, Health Informatics

Jan 2009Jan 2009 · 0 mo

Numerix

Quality Assurance Tester/Developer Intern

Sep 2007Apr 2008 · 7 mos

Cibc

Quality Assurance Analyst Intern

Jan 2007Aug 2007 · 7 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

Education

York University

BSc

Jan 2003Jan 2009

Schulich ExecEd

Certificate in Facilitative Leadership

Jan 2018Jan 2018

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