Canada

Full stack

Michael Greenspan

Engineering Manager | Engineering Growth Coach | Engineering ADHD Coach

Newsletter writing

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Empathy

Organisation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Community management

Content creation

LinkedIn writing

Jira

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

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

I coach ambitious software engineers like you who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or empty so that you can find focus, take meaningful action, and feel fulfilled. This means that you'll be able to build your dream tech career without sacrificing your well-being, your relationships, or your joy.

I also have a particular focus on engineers with ADHD, helping them harness their unique minds to build sustainable momentum and thrive without burning out.

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.

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

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

Michael Greenspan🇨🇦