Mike Bombich

Mike Bombich is a former employee of Apple and the president of Bombich Software.

Early life and education
Mike Bombich is an identical twin and self-identifies as a clone. He received a B.A. in biology from Kalamazoo College and a M.A. in biology from Bowling Green State University, where he was also a tech support specialist. Bombich's company biography states that he experimented with cloning DNA in college, but found cloning Macintosh drives to be more interesting.

Apple
Bombich joined Apple Computer in 2002 and became a solutions architect for higher education accounts. As a systems engineer, he was a presenter at the 2003 and 2004 Worldwide Developers Conferences, covering topics such as using AppleScript Studio to apply user interfaces to Unix command line tools, and using Apple Remote Desktop for mass deployment.

Bombich Software
Bombich first released Carbon Copy Cloner on January 18, 2002 as a backup utility for Mac OS X, now macOS. He thought of it while providing tech support at Bowling Green State University because there was not yet any cloning utility for Mac OS X. With the release of Mac OS X Lion in 2010, he was receiving 120 support inquiries a day for Carbon Copy Cloner. He then left Apple to focus on Carbon Copy Cloner as a commercial application at Bombich Software and continues to attend WWDC.

Interviews

 * OWC Radio #36 – Retro Interview with Mike Bombich at Other World Computing (2015-04-02)
 * Essential Apple Podcast 59: Mike Bombich of CCC in Conversation by Simon Parnell at MyMac Podcasting Network (2017-10-10)
 * APFS with Mike Bombich – Mac Geek Gab 796 by Mac Geek Gab at YouTube (2020-01-12)