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Michael Sawka is listed as Founder / CEO of Wave Terminal at Wave Terminal, based in San Francisco, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Michael Sawka.
Michael Sawka previously worked as Founder / CEO at Wave Terminal and Founder at Dashborg Inc. Michael Sawka holds Bs, Computer Science from Stanford University.
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Founder and CEO of Wave Terminal — An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows. Backed by Unusual Ventures and Alchemist Accelerator. (https://www.waveterm.dev)Terminal deconstructor, Golang hacker, and React/TypeScript app builder. 20 years of technical experience as an engineer, manager, and CTO at startups in the SF Bay Area. Stanford Computer Science graduate with honors and distinction. Cross-functional experience running engineering, product management, and operations.
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San Francisco, Ca, Us
An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows. Inline web rendering, persistent sessions, and universal history.• Unusual Ventures• Alchemist Accelerator (Batch 33)• https://www.waveterm.dev
Modern internal tools. Defined, controlled, and deployed directly from backend code. No JavaScript. Secure.
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During tenure as CTO, led the transformation of Topix’s business and technology. Increased revenue and page views over 10x using Big Data analytics, data driven product management, and best-in-class custom campaign creation and campaign management tools. As CTO managed Engineering, Product, and Operations and was involved hands-on in the entire technology stack from frontend design to backend data storage. Topix was acquired by PCH in August 2019. Key highlights include:• Realtime analytics/monetization pipeline written in Go (Golang)• Redshift / Redshift Spectrum data warehouse• Machine learning for revenue prediction and enhanced campaign management• Best-in-class custom tools for managing FB, Snap, Taboola, Outbrain, and GDN campaigns• Custom CMS to support writing staff and site content• Custom Prebid.js wrapper for maximizing ad viewability, minimizing requests, and improving CPMs• Data driven product management utilizing A/B tests• Infrastructure migrated to AWS (from legacy colo)• Weekly sprint release process implementation• DevTools and DevOps modernization (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, Ansible, Packer, Webpack)• React based frontend architecture (migrated from legacy template system)• Recruited, mentored, and retained engineering staff (over 20 hires)• Company strategy, including generation of models and due diligence for acquisition process
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• Part of the core management team, involved with setting company strategy and goals• Responsible for Engineering, Product Management, and Operations• Managed a team of 15 engineers, designers, and ops staff, including remote employees• Developed the team by recruiting new engineers and staff; terminated non-performers• Coordinated weekly releases from both the product and engineering side• Experience with all aspects of publisher ad serving, including implementing and evaluating ad networks and ad servers, ad trafficking, custom creatives, RFP fulfillment, and analytics
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• Responsible for all of the backend architecture encompassing hundreds of servers• Designed and implemented Topix's NoSQL distributed in-memory key-value store (based in part on Amazon Dynamo). Data store has been used in all new projects with no major downtime• Designed and implemented Topix's application server framework, using MVC principles, which serves all Topix’s web requests• Experience with every level of Topix's technology stack: HTML/JS/CSS/SCSS, Apache/mod_perl/nginx, application server code, data storage, and hardware/IT/operations• Intimately involved in product development, including business goals, specifications, visual design, and implementation
San Jose, Ca, Us
Promoted from Senior Software Engineer to Architect.Designed and implemented most of Spoke’s backend technology and infrastructure written with Java/Struts and SQL. Projects included: database abstraction layer, high-speed email processing pipeline, and Lucene search index. Responsible for all database architecture, including adding tables/indexes/materialized views to the DB and optimizing queries.During the last 2 years, was given increasing engineering management responsibilities, including planning, scoping, scheduling, and assigning tasks. De facto ran engineering after the departure of Spoke’s VPE in late 2004.
Austin, Texas, Us
Recruited to Siebel Systems to help design and prototype the new Siebel 8 architecture. Prototyped a declarative application framework (similar to Mozilla’s XUL) in C# .NET. Worked with Siebel’s Chief Architect and some of the original Siebel engineers.
Helped design and implement a Java platform to interconnect SOAP based web-services
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Michael Sawka works for Wave Terminal.
Michael Sawka is listed as Founder / CEO of Wave Terminal at Wave Terminal.
Michael Sawka is based in San Francisco, California, United States while working with Wave Terminal.
Michael Sawka has worked for Wave Terminal, Dashborg Inc, Publishers Clearing House, Topix, and Spoke Software.
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Michael Sawka holds Bs, Computer Science from Stanford University.
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