Mike Schwartz

Sr. Vice-President, Engineering

Name variants:
Michael Schwartz
Last updated Jun 08, 2024

Contact Information

Last Update
Jul 3, 2022
Email
mi**@airbnb.com, li**@mike-schwartz.com, mi**@mike-schwartz.com
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Company

Workplace

Wikia
Sr. Vice-President, Engineering

San Francisco, CA

Industry

Internet, Information Retrieval Services, Nsk, Online Database Information Retrieval

Work History

Sr. Vice-President, Engineering

from Apr 2010

Vice-President, Engineering and Operations

BigTent’s goal is to connect people with the communities they care about, making it easy for groups and their members to participate, communicate, and organize. • Dramatically improved site ...
May 2008 — Dec 2009

Vice-President, Engineering

MokaFive extends virtualization technology to enable delivery of desktop virtual machines across the Internet as a managed service. • Evolved engineering team from research / prototype orien...
2007 — 2008

Vice-President, Engineering and Operations

Six Apart hosted blogging services — TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox — and developed Movable Type (shrink-wrapped blogging software). TypePad and LiveJournal are two of the Web’s largest 150 si...
Jul 2005 — Jul 2007

Vice-President, Engineering

The Elemental Compliance System is a centrally-managed enterprise-scale distributed security system which unifies policy management, host configuration and network access control. • Built an...
Jan 2004 — May 2005

Director, Engineering

Led the team responsible for development of Opsware, the company’s product for automated data center operations. • Released first four versions of company’s software product. Personally mana...
Nov 2000 — Dec 2003

Vice-President, Engineering

Established and developed the Engineering group of Web-based custom merchandise site. Branders is the only online distributor to become one of the top 1% of US distributors within its first ...
Nov 1999 — Nov 2000

Director, Engineering

Led many of the most important engineering efforts for one of the early Web innovators and one of the world’s five largest sites. • Responsible for the engineering, schedule and deployment o...
Nov 1995 — Nov 1999

Software Engineering Manager

Responsible for the application development model built on Sun's CORBA products. • Successfully introduced an incremental deliverables-oriented development process. Created a product and cus...
Jan 1994 — Nov 1995

Software Engineer / Engineering Manager

Established, built and let the applications development team for a new pen-based class of computing devices. • Founding member and manager of the team. Recruited, trained and directed the te...
Apr 1988 — Dec 1993

Software Engineer

Researched and prototyped Sun's GUI toolkits for distributed window systems.
Apr 1986 — Apr 1988

Software Engineer

Designed and developed WYSIWYG editor and data analysis applications.
Apr 1983 — Mar 1986

Vice President Of Engineering

350 Brannan Street, 3, San Francisco, CA 94107

Education

1981 — 1983
1977 — 1981

Occupations

Executive
Senior Manager
Founder
Security
Operations Manager
Founding Member
Chief Executive

Skills

Scalability
Agile Methodologies
Software Development
Saas
Apache
Web Applications
Product Management
Software Engineering
Distributed Systems
Start Ups
Mysql
Mobile Applications
Php
Linux
Scrum
Python
Devops
Web Development
Security
Unix
Open Source
Team Leadership
Engineering
Executive Management
Leadership
Management
Software Project Management
Software Projects
Software Process Management
Web Operations
Architecture
Software Quality
Cloud Computing
Software Development Life Cycle
Enterprise Software
Cross Functional Team Leadership
Entrepreneurship
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