Michael is one of only a handful of people in the world who has scaled a web service to over 100 million users. He has built infrastructure to support some of the biggest sites on the web including Photobucket and TinyPic. Prior to SafetyWeb, Michael was the first executive hire and architect at Photobucket and the platforms he scaled now accommodate > 100 million registered users with 8 billion images. He built the development, operations, and customer support teams to keep up with the growth and helped lead Photobucket to a $300 million exit to NewsCorporation. Michael has also served as a senior solution engineer at NetApp, led the development of a solid state storage product for TiGi, built a telecom engineering organization at TouchAmerica, and helped build Citrix’s consulting services organization. He has over 15 years of direct experience building scalable systems.
Michael holds a Bachelors of Arts in Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts in Human Communication from the University of Denver.
