Summary
Gabriel Michael is a data-driven technologist and former U.S. diplomat with 11 years of experience building large-scale data platforms, leading engineering teams, and shaping policy-relevant research. He has led production data efforts at Disney Streaming—creating subscriber-classification systems and tooling used by hundreds of engineers—and ran data engineering and science teams that designed high-throughput ETL, ML-driven ad-placement models, and industry-standard measurement frameworks. His background blends rigorous social science (PhD-level political science and policy research at Yale and GWU) with hands-on engineering across AWS, GraphQL, and custom metastore tooling. Currently a cleared Foreign Service Officer, he brings rare domain fluency at the intersection of technology, public policy, and international service. Notably, he has published large-scale analyses of public comments and social media and translated that research practice into reliable, auditable data infrastructures for commercial and government use.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Master's Degree, Religion/Religious Studies, Master's Degree, Religion/Religious Studies at Yale University
Master's Degree, Political Science and Government, Master's Degree, Political Science and Government at The George Washington University
French, Spanish