Summary

Michael is a patent awarded engineer and open source contributor with over two decades of experience. He's spent time as an individual contributor, principal engineer, manager and as a Director including leading Nike’s real-time data platform teams. He is a proven leader with the skills and knowledge to develop and improve an organization’s process, product and culture. Whether the organization was large or small, Michael has made a positive impact in every one he has been a part of.

  • Director of multiple teams responsible for Nike’s paradigm shift to real-time data accountable for millions of dollars throughout the supply chain and sales.
  • Successfully revitalized a demoralized team and rearchitected the data platform and services to be near real-time as the Director of Engineering at Recurly.
  • Lead Engineer for Kenna Security, acquired by Cisco, responsible for hiring efforts and establishing team foundation while being an individual contributor.

Experience

  • Dir of Eng, Platform

    Blue Lava

    Blue Lava is an early stage SaaS providing assessment tooling for the security industry, specifically for CISOs gaining insights into their organization’s security posture.

    AWS Ruby Postgres Lambda Dynamo CloudFormation

  • Dir of Eng

    Nike

    Nike has made large investments to establish a more direct relationship with the consumers of its products through technology. During the course of my tenure, I was asked to oversee seven teams that represented the effort to shift to real-time data. From instrumentation and data capture, to data pipelines, infrastructure and personalization, the teams I lead provided the foundation to utilize real-time data. We provided the platform and tooling that enabled other teams. What we built resulted in millions of dollars in sales and savings throughout the entire organization.

    Kafka Kinesis Lambda API Gateway Terraform CloudFormation Kubernetes Elasticsearch S3 Hive Segment Scala TypeScript Python Go

  • Dir of Eng, Data Platform & Services

    Recurly

    Recurly has built a comprehensive subscription billing and payment system powering household names such as Dish and CBS. I successfully led the Data Platform and Services team in a rearchitecting effort evolving a large batch process ETL into a near real-time event stream that ran the Analytics offering.

    AWS Data Pipeline Hadoop Sqoop Kafka Spark Elasticsearch Redshift Dynamo MySQL Ruby Python Java Scala

  • Lead Engineer

    Kenna Security

  • Founder/Engineer

    Krash Inc

  • Engineer

    Barefoot Proximity

  • Engineer

    HSR

  • Technical Director

    HyperQUAKE

  • Engineer

    Eviciti

  • Engineer

    Value America

  • Engineer

    Zing Networks

Mentions

Education