Mike Bengtson — VP / Director, AI Engineering Leadership

Builder and leader, at once

Two decades building and scaling production platforms — now personally architecting the agentic-AI toolchains that make engineering organizations dramatically faster.

Equally at home leading multi-squad orgs against nine-figure KPIs and pairing with engineers in the codebase via Claude Code, Codex, MCP, and RAG. Proven at scaling platforms from zero to millions of users, doubling engineering capacity under deadline, and operationalizing agentic development that has cut some delivery cycles from three months to a two-week sprint.

He sets engineering standards, scales teams, and writes code with the same toolchains he asks his organization to adopt — and he maintains gemba-core, an open-source framework for parallel agentic development, as the public proof of that practice.

Selected experience

Detail tapers from most recent and most relevant. Employer work is described at a high level — no confidential specifics.

Fidelity Investments

Apr 2022 – May 2026

Two mandates across four years — leading Brokerage's agentic-AI transformation and AIDE, the servicing platform behind a $175M AHT-savings target, after first rescuing and scaling the Consumer Portfolio Capability data platform.

VP, Engineering Leader — Brokerage AI Innovation Lead & AIDE Program · Multi-Squad Chapter Leader

2024 – 2026

Led Brokerage's agentic-AI transformation: operationalizing agentic development across the org while running engineering for AIDE — an AI "single pane of glass" consolidating 14+ servicing tools for 8,900 call-center associates, targeting $175M in average-handle-time savings over five years.

Built a reusable, skill-based code-generation pipeline that cut delivery for some feature classes from ~3 months to a single two-week sprint — up to a ~6× reduction in cycle time.
Architected and open-sourced gemba-core, a vendor-agnostic framework for work-tracking and session orchestration across massively parallel agentic coding flows.
Stood up an enterprise RAG + MCP knowledge layer that vectorized thousands of Confluence pages and Swagger/API contracts, making institutional knowledge consumable by agentic pipelines.
Established the brokerage's agentic-development standard — Claude Code, Codex, SpecKit, GitNexus code graphs, local MCP servers — plus the cross-squad SDLC governance for integration testing, release management, and AI-assisted review.
Scaled the AIDE engineering org from 14 to 31 engineers in six months through internal, external, associate, and contingent recruiting, onboarding, and training.
Shipped AIDE's highest-impact servicing capabilities — Wire/ACH transfer, stock and funds trading, multi-holding liquidation, and call-notes optimization — directly advancing the $175M AHT-savings target.

VP, Full-Stack Engineering — Consumer Portfolio Capability · Chapter Leader

2022 – 2024

Hired to finish and stabilize a stalled enterprise data-aggregation platform — powering Planning & Guidance, real-time financial eventing, and bulk insights — then promoted to Chapter Leader for its long-term ownership.

Took the platform from 0 to 7M+ users in two years, stabilizing the stalled launch within two months of onboarding.
Re-architected for scale on AWS (Micronaut Java, Aurora Postgres, SQS event bus): autoscaling, multi-region balancing, DB resizing, and rapid DR-failover tuning.
Owned roadmap and long-term strategy across business stakeholders, Product, and engineering on a system live in production — expanding from consumer-spend aggregation to student-loan data, real-time credit-card eventing, and external portfolio tracking with live pricing.

Amobee (a Singtel company)

Jul 2016 – Mar 2022

Technical Lead — Back-end Architecture (2021–2022) · Social Channels (2016–2021). SaaS AdTech platform unifying mobile, social, video, and display advertising.

Architected and led delivery of Amobee Marketplace, an industry-first "Amazon-style" storefront presenting ad inventory as shoppable products — owned the stack selection (GraphQL, AOP/annotation-driven services, React) and shipped on time and on budget with a hybrid on/offshore team.
Designed Social 2.0, a unified Java microservices platform consolidating the Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Pinterest advertising APIs; personally built the multi-identity OAuth, entity-grouping, and front-end orchestration services.
Piloted a serverless offering — a long-lived AWS Lambda backed by DynamoDB — proving patterns reused across later products; led the founding Snapchat "tiger team" and migrated the org off Vagrant/Bash/Fabric to a Kubernetes DevOps toolchain.

ACI Worldwide

2010 – 2016

Director, Service Delivery Management (2013–2016) · Senior Solution Architect (2010–2013).

Led an 18-person global team accountable for $300M in SaaS revenue, owning service design and delivery while transitioning the business from on-prem licensing to subscription SaaS.
Integrated the service-delivery models of three acquisitions with minimal customer attrition and built a legacy-migration program that held 80%+ retention — near-total among top-tier accounts.
As Senior Solution Architect, designed PCI-compliant card-tokenization loyalty for a global beverage leader, the industry's first tablet-based payment for a global QSR, an SMS real-time fraud-alert program, and the industry's first PayPal-to-ATM transfers.

Earlier Career

1996 – 2010 · S1 Corporation · Mosaic Software

S1 Corporation — Regional VP, Canada & Caribbean (2006–2010): grew territory revenue from $800K to $3M+ in year one, delivered double quota the next, and secured the first EFT-processor account in Canada.
Mosaic Software — VP, Channel Management & Product Strategy (2000–2006) · Development Manager (1996–2000): built the reseller channel (first multimillion-dollar reseller EFT sale), authored the ATM media-management portion of ISO 20022, and led North American EFT engineering — including an industry-first event-driven Java SDK for EFT processing.

Core competencies

AI & Agentic Engineering

Claude CodeCodexGitHub Copilot MCP serversRAG & vector searchAgentic orchestration Spec-driven developmentCode-graph intelligence (GitNexus) Evals & guardrailsPrompt / context engineering

Engineering Leadership

Multi-squad & chapter leadershipHiring & scaling teams SDLC & release governanceCross-org roadmap alignment Revenue & P&L ownership

Cloud & Platform

AWS (Lambda, Aurora/RDS, DynamoDB)SQS · S3 · KMS · Route 53 MicroservicesKubernetes · Rancher · ArgoCD Event-driven architectureCI/CD

Languages & Frameworks

Java (Spring Boot, Micronaut)TypeScript / Node.js PythonReactGo GraphQL & RESTSQL & NoSQL

Open source & recent activity

Public, hands-on proof of the agentic-development practice — the same toolchain he asks organizations to adopt. Repo stats measured 2026-05-31 across the last 30 days.

gemba-core

Featured · Creator & maintainer Go + embedded React SPA · MIT

An open-source agent-orchestration dashboard — a single-binary Go + React application giving developers one pane of glass for planning, dispatching, and monitoring massively parallel "headless" agentic development. It pairs a WorkPlane (trackers like Beads) with an OrchestrationPlane (agent runtimes) behind an adaptor-agnostic core, so swapping either side never requires a rewrite. Engineering hygiene in the open: CI, go test -race + frontend tests, golangci-lint, and goreleaser multi-OS/arch releases.

199

commits · last 30 days

837

commits · total

~269k

lines of code

Go + React

single binary

View repository Live site & docs

gemba-prime

A browser-based, Atlassian-style UI for multi-agent orchestration that renders any Work Coordination Plane (Beads, Jira, Linear, GitHub Projects) over any Agent Orchestration Plane (Gas Town, LangGraph, CrewAI) without UI changes.

HTML 33 commits total ~8.4k LOC

engagement-stack

A human-first, agent-readable Career OS: a source-controlled professional dossier for CV, work history, portfolio evidence, engagement preferences, structured offer requests, and evaluation rubrics.

Shell 6 commits · 30d ~3.3k LOC

job-search-superpower

An evidence-grounded prompt for the job search you actually want to run — strategy, resume, LinkedIn, portfolio, cover letter, and action plan — usable in any LLM or as a Claude skill.

Shell 8 commits · 30d ~570 LOC

Public, non-archived repositories with at least one commit since 2026-05-01. Lines are code-only (cloc .SUM.code, excluding blanks/comments); commit counts via git rev-list. Employer projects (Fidelity, Amobee) are proprietary or NDA and have no public artifact.

Availability & engagement

Open to the work where the mandate is to operationalize agentic / AI-assisted development across an organization — pairing org-building with real time in the codebase.

Fractional / Advisory

Advising leadership on AI engineering strategy, agentic adoption, and developer-velocity transformation — standing up the practice end to end.

Preferred

Full-Time Leadership

VP / Director of Engineering roles that pair org-building — hiring, scaling squads, SDLC and release governance — with hands-on engineering.

Open

Remote · Available July 2026

Based in Atlanta, GA and open to remote. Available to start July 2026, for the right mandate building an agentic-development practice.

Atlanta, GA

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