Mike Jacobs is a Senior Distinguished Engineer for Product Engineering and Data Solutions at Optum in Eden Prairie, MN. Mike is currently focused on high priority strategic technology initiatives such as blockchain, innovation and guiding the maturation of our agile architecture and engineering practices.  Mike is a voting member of the U.S. National Body working on the international standards for blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, a member of the Optum Architecture Review Board, a member of several Patent Review Boards and a frequent conference speaker, most recently at CES 2018 and HIMSS 2018.

In his previous role, Mike was the Portfolio Architect responsible for the strategic architectural direction of the Risk, Quality and Network Solutions line of business and the approach taken by many of the projects implementing the strategy. Mike also advised the organization direction for Scaled Agile, architecture governance and technology standards.