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Michael Suarez — Software engineer, iOS developer, and enterprise technologist

Computer Engineering, U of M 5 Apps on the App Store Apple Keynote Featured

The long version

I've spent 30 years at the intersection of engineering and business — building research systems at Cybernet Systems, architecting enterprise solutions at Oracle, and for 16+ years leading presales engineering at MicroStrategy, covering the Central US and Canada with a team of 18. Each role taught me how technology actually gets adopted — not how it looks in demos.

Alongside that career, I've been building iOS apps. RetireMint started because I couldn't find a retirement planning tool that treated me like an engineer — one that would run actual simulations, show survivorship probabilities, and let me stress-test against the 2008 financial crisis. Every tool I found gave me glossy optimism. So I built the one I wanted. Minder.ai started because my note-taking system kept failing me: I'd capture hundreds of thoughts and never surface them again. I built something that thinks ahead so I don't have to.

One of those early iOS apps was featured in an Apple Keynote presentation — a moment that made the years of late-night Swift debugging feel entirely worth it. I've shipped five apps through the App Store, with over 2,300 units sold per year and growing.

Daedalus onWing is named for the mythological craftsman who didn't just dream of flight — he built the wings. I believe software should be equally purposeful: precise, tested, and actually useful to the person holding it. No glossy optimism. No feature bloat. Just things that work.

I hold a US Patent (#6,050,940) in medical instrumentation technology, earned my B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1995, and have spent the decades since proving that deep technical knowledge and business fluency aren't mutually exclusive — they're the combination that makes genuinely good software.

Credentials

University of Michigan
B.S. Computer Engineering · 1995
MicroStrategy
Sr. Director, Sales Engineering · 2009–present
Central US & Canada · Team of 18
Oracle
Solution Architect · Great Lakes District
Cybernet Systems
Research Engineer & Product Manager
US Patent #6,050,940
Medical instrumentation technology
Apple App Store
5 published apps · 2,300+ units/year
One featured in an Apple Keynote
Skills
Swift · iOS · Python · JavaScript · SQL
AWS · Business Intelligence · Enterprise Software

30 years of building things

1993
Research Engineer — Cybernet Systems
Computer vision, robotics, and advanced defense research programs
1995
B.S. Computer Engineering — University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
1997
Product Manager — Cybernet Systems
Led commercial product development and go-to-market
1998
Sales Engineer → Practice Manager → Consulting Director — MicroStrategy
First seven years: consulting, practice leadership, enterprise BI deployments
~2002
US Patent #6,050,940 issued
Medical instrumentation: collection, distribution, and analysis
2005
Solution Architect — Oracle
Great Lakes District · Closed Q3 2006 Deal of the Quarter ($1.8M at R.L. Polk)
2009
Senior Director, Sales Engineering — MicroStrategy
Central US & Canada · 20 states · Team of 18
2012
MicroStrategy World Wide SE Director of the Year
148% of quota · Americas SE Director of the Year same year
2015
Americas SE Director of the Year — MicroStrategy
109% of quota
iOS Era
5 apps published to the Apple App Store
2,300+ units sold per year · One app featured in an Apple Keynote presentation
2024
RetireMint launched
iOS + web retirement simulator — the tool I always wanted but couldn't find
2025
Minder.ai launched · Claude MCP integration shipped
Personal knowledge intelligence · Your memory, wherever you use AI

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30 years of engineering, sales, and product experience — plus a deep interest in iOS and AI. Always up for a conversation about software, retirement planning, or building tools that actually work.

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