Summary
Mel Green is a seasoned engineering leader and current CTO based in Salt Lake City with 11 years of experience scaling product teams and shipping both SaaS platforms and embedded systems. He combines hands-on technical fluency across languages from JavaScript and Ruby to Go, Elixir, and C/C++ with proven hiring, coaching, and performance management to grow high-performing, distributed teams. Mel has guided startups from 0 to meaningful ARR while modernizing stacks and processes, and led larger teams to evolve monoliths into microservices at scale. His background spans cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes) and deep systems work such as full-text indexing and embedded/networked device software—a blend that helps bridge product, ops, and hardware-oriented engineering. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic, public-facing leader who still rolls up his sleeves in code and architecture when it matters.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Software Engineering at Utah Valley University