Michael Jensen

Michael Jensen

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Vice President of Engineering
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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  • Cortex
    Vice President of Engineering
    Cortex
    May 2026 - Current (6 months)
  • Arbor
    VP of Engineering
    Arbor
    Sep 2025 - May 2026 (9 months)
  • Arcadia
    VP of Engineering
    Arcadia
    Oct 2023 - Sep 2025 (2 years)
  • Arcadia
    Senior Director of Engineering
    Arcadia
    Mar 2022 - Sep 2023 (1 year 7 months)
  • Arcadia
    Director, Engineering
    Arcadia
    May 2020 - Mar 2022 (1 year 11 months)
  • Arcadia
    Senior Engineering Manager
    Arcadia
    Jun 2018 - May 2020 (2 years)
  • UrbanStems
    Lead Developer/Team Lead
    UrbanStems
    Jan 2017 - Jun 2018 (1 year 6 months)
    - Acted as the engineering lead and team manager reporting directly to the CTO. 50% hands-on as a React/Node developer and infrastructure lead
    - Implemented and deployed new revenue-driving products, including extended zone mail-orders, subscription services, automated delivery routing, and enhanced inventory and shipment management.
  • Democratic National Committee
    Director of Engineering
    Democratic National Committee
    Dec 2015 - Jan 2017 (1 year 2 months)
    - Lead a team of full-time Engineers and contractors building applications with Python (Django/Flask/internal data processing scripts), Rails, PHP (Wordpress/Expression Engine), and static sites (JQuery, React, vanilla JS) used by 10s of millions of voters.
    - Built and maintained multiple tools and api services that received millions of requests per hour at peak traffic levels, including a polling location look-up service, voter file matching service, and FEC data search tool.
    - Projects led: New democrats.org website, over 15 microsites, IWillVote VBM, embeddable polling place locator tool used by over 20 campaigns, projects for the Offi
  • Democratic National Committee
    Lead Engineer/Team Lead
    Democratic National Committee
    Jun 2014 - Nov 2015 (1 year 6 months)
  • New Organizing Institute
    Lead Developer
    New Organizing Institute
    Jul 2011 - May 2014 (2 years 11 months)
    - Lead multiple projects to standardize and publicize civic data. These included campaign finance, elected representative, and polling location data.
    - Built data processing system used for the Voting Information Project’s collection, validation, and processing of state election polling location and ballot data.
    - As a data contractor for external company’s civic initiatives, built data pipelines to manage polling location, ballot, and elected representative data that was surfaced through that company’s Civic API.
  • Salsa Labs Inc
    Software Engineer
    Salsa Labs Inc
    Jan 2011 - Jul 2011 (7 months)
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  • Miami University
    Bachelor of Science (B.S, Computer Science
    Miami University
    Jan 2004 - Jan 2009 (5 years 1 month)
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