Irene Yachbes
Government Research Program Manager And Quantum Business Development Executive at IBM
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolIrene Yachbes is a seasoned technology leader with 10+ years driving complex programs, products, and cross-functional teams at IBM, where she currently leads Collaboration and Productivity Tools Engineering and Data Insights for the CIO Toolbox. She blends engineering, product, and data expertise to deliver secure, user-centered collaboration platforms—owning vendor relationships, global stakeholder alignment, and analytics-driven tooling decisions for services like Slack, Webex, GitHub and Mural. Her background spans product strategy for IBM Research, UX-led cloud application delivery, and earlier roles scaling customer success and innovation in startups and aerospace, giving her a rare mix of systems engineering rigor and human-centered design sensibility. Irene is data-minded—building data lakes and custom analytics to surface tooling usage and inform operational and business choices across a large enterprise. She also co-founded The Mentor Project, reflecting a long-standing commitment to mentoring and community outreach beyond her corporate impact. Her M.S. in Technical Management from Johns Hopkins and hands-on spacecraft test engineering roots underscore both technical depth and a bias for disciplined execution.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Bachelor of Science Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (23)
console10
windows10
linux10
bash10
bsd10
android10
command-line10
macos10
shell10
documentation10
cli10
stackblitz9
chatbot9
curl8
full-stack8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ireaneus/aws-saa
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
ireaneus/ireaneus-cheatsheets
Jul 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:210 commits, 142 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 6 months
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