About Michael Greenspan

Seven years as a software engineer. Nine years as an engineering manager. Building a career I was proud of on paper — while quietly wondering why it didn't feel the way I expected it to.

It wasn't burnout. It wasn't failure. It was something harder to name — a growing gap between what I had achieved and what I actually felt.

Today I work privately with a small number of senior engineers and engineering leaders who are asking deeper questions about ambition, identity, self-doubt, and meaning. The work is reflective rather than tactical. A slower kind of conversation than the ones already crowding their calendar.

I publish two newsletters. The Complete Engineer is for senior engineers and engineering leaders sitting with the questions that the next promotion won't answer. The ADHD Engineer is a separate weekly newsletter for software engineers with ADHD — engineers tired of being at war with themselves at work.

I'm based in Toronto.