Michael Hart Email & Phone Number

Evergreen, CO, US

Engagements include GenAI advisor development (Department of Defense), OSS security risk dashboard design (The Linux Foundation), and product management team audit and recommendations (Confidential)

Reported to Rob Solomon, former CEO and chairman of GoFundMe and president of Groupon.Developed dashboard to optimize ecommerce brands’ competitive product performance using KPI benchmarks.Improved load time of ecommerce sites by 50%.Kite investors realigned on investment 12/23 due to changes in the macro economy,resulting in a wind down of the team.

San Francisco, US

Defined and launched Fletch’s first two AI-powered apps, radically simplifying threat intelligence and people risk assessment, including new freemium versions leading to a 50x increase in users and a 33% weekly engagement rate.Redesigned product pricing and packaging to shift from a sales-led to product-led growth strategy.Launched The Threat Show weekly.

San Francisco, US

Seattle, WA, US

Established the first services team within the Alexa devices organization with 25 product managers and engineers.Created a platform for app developers to attract and retain users with content created for Alexa’s Ambient Home experience.Improved user engagement within the Ambient Home experience on Echo Show devices with increased content options and.

San Francisco, California, US

Insight Engines is a company founded with the goal of turning machine data into human intelligence. Insight Engines’ flagship product is Cyber Security Investigator (CSI) for Splunk, a natural language search assistant that enables information security professionals of all levels to become more productive, while significantly reducing risk for the.

Created personalized, “algorithmic merchandising as a service” for online retailers.Achieved 7% revenue growth for customers with a founding team of five employees.Invented a transparent and audit-able method for calculating customer ROI and service fees using continuous multivariate testing.

Acquired by Google

New York, NY, US

Opened and led Bonobos’ Palo Alto office, building their first product development team of 25 employees.Improved ecommerce revenue 24%, including 4% lift from using machine learning to power algorithmic merchandising.Refactored ecommerce systems, including Magento’s first production deployment to the AWS cloud, supporting business growth and peak sales.

Los Gatos, CA, US

Developed the systems making the Netflix experience social, including sharing of movies watched and social movie recommendations.

Los Gatos, CA, US

Founded the Netflix API, enabling collaboration with major device manufacturers like Sony, Apple, Microsoft and Roku to develop Netflix video discovery experiences on TV devices.Partnered with Microsoft to develop and test Netflix’s first on-television video discovery features, increasing viewing engagement 50%.Created the Netflix Developer Network.

Redmond, Washington, US

Founded and led MSN video syndication, TV listings, content recommendations, and MSN TV content product teams.

Redmond, Washington, US

Created the first remote DVR programming service and first MSN Video TV app for Windows Media Center PCs.Re-architected platform for developing the MSN TV home page and content channels to reduce development effort over 50%.Developed two TV app prototypes demonstrated in Bill Gates’ CES keynote addresses.

Redmond, Washington, US

Developed conceptual design for and led development of remote DVR programming service for Windows Media Center PCs.Developed conceptual design for and led development of MSN Video client application for Windows Media Center PCs.Re-architected all MSN TV home page and content channels, reducing development effort over 50%.Designed and implemented MSN’s TV.

Redmond, Washington, US

Designed and implemented AJAX-like application framework dispatching real-time data asynchronously to satellite TV applications.Designed performance profiler and advertising client for UltimateTV satellite receivers.