Michael Scheel Email & Phone Number

An accomplished and dedicated technical leader with a focus on Platform Operations and Software Engineering. Expertise in creating, running, and growing distributed engineering organizations responsible for high-uptime global services. Skilled mentor of both engineers and managers with a proven track record of helping others grow their careers and their teams in both technical and managerial paths. Builder of motivated, happy, and highly productive teams, developed on the foundation of trust through transparency, inclusion, communication, and integrity.At this time, I am only considering remote/work-from-home positions. I am based out of the San Diego, CA area and able to do some travel.Core proficiencies include:* Building and mentoring high-performance distributed engineering teams* Strategic planning, architecture planning and review, efficient problem-solving, communication, coaching, budgeting, vendor management, hiring, and retention* Business-wide view, including working with other engineering teams, technical operations, QA, customer service, finance, legal, and HR* Engineering-focused project and product management (agile scrum, kanban, shapeup) to allow teams to execute on corporate priorities, especially customer happiness, reliability, predictability, and the right balance of feature work and technical debt management* Extensive track record of success with DevOps-style of scalable production engineering* A comprehensive history of hands-on work with many operating systems and programming languages, and a particularly deep understanding of UNIX/Linux

Listed skills include Scalability, System Administration, Servers, Cloud Computing, and 25 others.

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  U.C. Berkeley

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