Mike Schwartz Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Fractional CTO / Head of Engineering. Helping Eviset Engineering build their MVP and raise their seed round.

I provide fractional and interim engineering and management leadership services when teams need more engineering depth, an additional set of eyes, or more bandwidth.Representative engagements:◆ Interim VP Engineering and CTO. Built MVP. Bootstrapped architecture and tool chain. Recruited engineers and my full-time replacement.◆ Strategic consulting on Engineering, Monetization and Product Strategy. Interim Product Manager.◆ Interim VP Engineering / CTO for 18 months. Built their MVP.◆ Professional and personal mentoring of Engineering leaders progressing to a "manager of manager" role in a growing team and company.◆ Member of the Board of Advisors. Engineering and strategic advice.See https://mike-schwartz.com.

Business, Product and Engineering Strategy and hands-on fractional Product Manager.

Austin, Texas, Us

Fractional CTO / VPE. Bootstrapped Engineering for non-technical founders. Delivered Proof of Concept release.

Supporting Roster's non-technical founders by bootstrapping their Engineering department.

Austin, Texas, Us

Bootstrapped the Engineering function for a next-generation SaaS security solution. Developed Longbow's MVP.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Airbnb Payments strives to enable everyone in the world to pay and be paid, in a comfortable and familiar manner.Managed the newly formed Purchase team. The team is responsible for QuickPay, Airbnb’s cross-client platform library that connects Guests and Business Units to Airbnb’s payments system. Led the team through multiple sweeping Airbnb-wide UI and technical transitions.Expanded the team charter to encompass Purchase Management - the full lifecycle of a payment including refunds, cancellations, credits, etc. Pivoted to a rapid limited launch in response to COVID-19.

South San Francisco, California, Us

Stripe helps businesses take payments from anyone, anywhere.Led the teams developing Stripe’s in-person payments solution, Stripe Terminal. Successfully integrated the acqui-hired team into Stripe. Delivered the Beta product in six months. My team was instrumental in adding in-person payments to Stripe’s previously online-only stack. The team also developed the SDKs used by Point of Sale developers. Introduced Agile / Scrum development processes, significantly improving velocity and predictability. Attracted additional Stripes to join the team.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Square lets sellers accept credit card payments and to tap into a wealth of related financial services.Led the teams responsible for Square’s flagship Point of Sale (POS) iOS and Android mobile applications and several supporting services. Also led the full-stack teams responsible for Onboarding, Employee Management, Product Analytics, mobile QA and Mobile Developer Tools. (Approx. 80 people.)Identified an intractable legacy codebase as the core productivity issue in POS development and created the “Mobile Futures” team with a long-term charter to make the code base delightful. This team established the future architecture and spearheaded the implementation. This was Square’s first successful effort to radically improve mobile code quality.Effective and respected cross-functional mentor, change agent and leader across Square’s decentralized engineering teams. Examples:– Created, funded and staffed a Mobile Developer Tools team– Catalyzed a “Core Reviewers” code review process to increase throughput given the rapid increase in contributors– Turned around a demoralized team. Developed internal leadership and hired external leaders. Transfers into the team dramatically increased.– Defined Square’s first-ever Engineering Manager Hiring Process and re-defined the Engineering Manager career ladder

San Francisco, California, Us

Helped first-time Founders plan the growth and scale of their Engineering team.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Wikia operates one of the world’s most extensive collections of collaboratively generated long-form content. Wikia reached 170M monthly uniques and 1.7B monthly page views.Scaled Engineering & Operations from 20 to 80+ in San Francisco and Poland. Revitalized the overseas Engineering team and the working relationship between the US and overseas teams. Scaled and rationalized Technical Operations.Introduced Agile processes, Project Management, Analytics and QA. Motivated and drove company-wide performance, availability and code quality improvements, resulting in consistent 99.99+% availability.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

BigTent connects people with the communities they care about, making it easy for groups and their members to participate, communicate and organize.Dramatically improved site scalability, usability and maintainability. Users grew 20x (35K to 800K) in 14 months. Within 90 days re-deployed the site, moving from sub-98% to 99.98% availability. Deployed 10M+ email per day MTA and infrastructure. Shifted from centralized control to empowered project teams, dramatically increasing productivity and morale.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Moka5 extended virtualization technology to enable delivery of desktop virtual machines across the Internet as a managed service.Evolved the engineering team from research & prototype orientation to product orientation. Led team to deliver the 1.0 release.

Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan, Jp

Six Apart hosted the TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox blogging services. TypePad and LiveJournal were two of the Web’s 150 most trafficked sites.Matured a small team into a high-functioning scalable organization capable of rapid development of multiple products and services. Developed first line management and tripled the size of the team. Managed simultaneous development in Europe and Japan. Successfully integrated two acquisitions.Improved site reliability from two-nines to four-nines in six months. Simultaneously moved and merged two data centers deployments, multiplied Operations staff by 3x, service delivery by 4x and data center capacity by 4x.

Southlake, Tx, Us

Elemental developed an enterprise-scale distributed system which unified policy management, host configuration and network access control.Built and delivered 1.0 and 1.1 releases on time, under budget and beyond expected functionality. Worked closely with CTO and Product Management to turn product vision and customer requirements into shipping products.Melded diverse multi-disciplinary backgrounds required to deliver the product. Implemented lightweight processes for project management, design review, build-and-release, QA, documentation and support. With the executive team, developed and executed the company’s strategic plan, technology strategy and product roadmap.

Us

Led the team developing Opsware, the company’s ground-breaking cloud service and associated software. Successfully transformed the technology and team from internal tool development to customer-driven product development. Personally program-managed the first three releases of Opsware-as-a product.Released the first four versions of company’s software product. Key contributor to release definition. Led the team defining long-term technology direction.

Miami, Florida, Us

Infoseek was one of the five most visited sites in the early years of the Internet.Engineering Director and driving force in developing and launching three major site revisions, including the launch of Disney’s go.com portal. Successfully program managed the most difficult releases.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Science, Technology And Society