Michael Kowalchik Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Farmington Utah / Boston MA

Worked with the engineering and product teams to think about architectural issues for the Pluralsight platform. Created and led several architecture, platform, and data teams. Oversaw the design of the overall product architecture. This architecture integrated numerous corporate acquisitions with polyglot technology stacks and designs as well as supported.

Boston Massachusetts

Co founded the company. Invented a novel adaptive testing algorithm. Developed a consumer testing platform for knowledge and skill assessment. Variously led engineering, product, and primarily worked as Chief Technology Officer. After the acquisition by Pluralsight, the independent Smarterer company was merged into Pluralsight.

TZL is about connecting potential co-founders. I also consult with people looking for tech startup help.

Waltham, MA

I was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Grazr Corporation, a web technology company based on web feeds and social media data analytics. For three and a half years I led the engineering team and acted as primary software developer and architect for Grazr's various products. These products included Grazr.com, VibeMetrix, and AlertRank.

Hopkinton, MA

- Evangelized, created and led a new team at EMC for the experimental evaluation of system architectures.- Developed simulations, tools and procedures for analyzing existing and future EMC storage platforms.

Hopkinton, MA

- Developed architecture, hardware and software for a multi-year, internal ‘skunk works’ project to build a clustered, terabyte-RAM-cache, database storage accelerator.

Westboro, MA

- Worked on large, parallel-processing servers based on ccNUMA architecture.- Supported verification and design for custom silicon. - Designed printed circuits boards.- Created embedded hardware and software for server management.