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Michael Suarez — Software engineer, iOS developer, and enterprise technologist
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
Central US & Canada · Team of 18
One featured in an Apple Keynote
AWS · Business Intelligence · Enterprise Software
30 years of building things
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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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