Michael Silver Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, United States

Jamsocket is a platform for deploying WebSocket applications at scale. Think of it as AWS Lambda, but for WebSockets. We start ephemeral processes on demand, and keep them alive for as long as there is a connection to them. We’re an open-source company. The core of Jamsocket is Plane (https://plane.dev), our purpose-built, MIT-licensed orchestrator written in Rust.

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Directly managing two teams – working cross functionally with leaders across engineering on goal setting, roadmapping, capacity planning, hiring, mentoring engineers, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.Directly managing the infrastructure team. Delivered projects include: • Migrated Gather’s frontend to AWS S3/CloudFront to improve reliability and performance • Moved the remainder of Gather’s backend into Kubernetes • Shipped core security improvements (e.g. WAF, scanning, hardening, and intrusion detection)Launched and directly managing a second team, Engineering Productivity

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Hired and directly managed 4 engineers on infrastructureBuilt a high performance, async culture with a remote team spanning multiple continentsLed multiple engineering-wide efforts at Gather:• Expanded on-call to all engineering teams, making teams responsible for the full lifecycle of their services• Rolled out observability to all teams (metrics, logs, and error tracking across all frontend/backend)Drove impact through successful delivery of many core infra projects, including:• Migrated core infrastructure to Terraform• Moved several backend services from VMs to Kubernetes• Expanded to a multi-region Kubernetes deployment with automatic failoverLed and negotiated all enterprise procurement for Infrastructure SaaS

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Led infrastructure while scaling the team• Created Gather’s first live-preview environment – used every day by engineers to preview, test, and share their builds (Kubernetes, Docker)• Developed/conducted interviews, onboarding, and top of funnel/recruiting outreach• Helped hire the first infrastructure engineer, first PM, and first engineering intern

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First full-time engineer• Set up Gather’s first observability platform to monitor all machines (Grafana, Prometheus, Node Exporter)• Set up Gather’s first uptime/paging system to monitor for downtime and to automatically escalate to engineers (BetterUptime)• Migrated Gather’s HTTP backend from VMs to Kubernetes, which introduced zero downtime deploys (Kubernetes, Docker)• Set up Gather’s first CI/CD system, which enabled continuous releases and is used every day for builds/deploys (CircleCI, Docker)• Scaled Gather’s load-testing framework to simulate 15,000 concurrent users (project was shared at KubeCon 2021 and in attached blog post)

San Francisco, California, Us

Intern on the Storage Team @ MemSQL (SingleStore)• Benchmarked MemSQL's distributed deadlock resolution in 2-phase commit.• Authored a new release of a database benchmarking tool in Go with enhanced transaction error handling, statistics, and graphs.• Tackled core project tech debt, configuring reliable builds and CI/CD.

Intern on Akkio (a data placement service for globally distributed sharded databases)• Created a multithreaded recovery tool in C++ for disaster scenarios.• Wrote integration and automated end-to-end testing frameworks for the tool.

Cupertino, California, Us

Intern on Siri Search• Developed backend for a new user-facing feature of Spotlight, Safari, and Siri. • Improved Search and Retrieval infrastructure.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Contributed to Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval related research on the START Question Answering System under Prof. Boris Katz.• Investigated techniques to enhance the START parser with Machine Learning.• Developed a tool that aids START in parsing by leveraging state-of-the-art Open Source parsers.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Contributed to Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval related research on the START Question Answering System under Prof. Boris Katz.• Managed deployment and uptime of an online question-answering system used by thousands of users.• Converted a 10-year old code base to a new programming language, removing 75% of code and reducing technical debt.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Contributed to Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval related research on the START Question Answering System under Prof. Boris Katz.• Developed uniform interfaces to fetch multimedia content from websites for question answering.• Created a system that automatically paraphrases language from Wikipedia. Paper won National Semifinalist in the Siemens Competition.

Newton, Massachusetts, Us

Private Tutor of Math. One-on-one teaching with children from 1st through 10th grade. Occasional teacher of larger groups (≈ 15 students).

Boston, Ma, Us

Molecular Biology research on Cell Cycle Machinery under Prof. Peter Sicinski. Conducted PCR reactions and gel-electrophoresis; analyzed DNA sequences to discern Cyclin D knockouts.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

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