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

Sr. Vice-President, Engineering
San Francisco, CA
Industry
Internet, Information Retrieval Services, Nsk, Online Database Information Retrieval
Colleagues
Work History
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
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