Summary
Michael Bauer is an experienced engineering leader with 15 years building scalable data, test, and compute infrastructure across startups and hyperscale organizations. He has led teams and shipped mission-critical systems from HPC container runtimes (Singularity) that power the world's largest supercomputers to launch and test software used on Relativity Space’s Terran 1. Comfortable across the stack, he has driven production AI compute scheduling at Meta and modern data tooling for hardware teams at startups like Nominal. Michael blends hands-on architecture and coding with people leadership, repeatedly scaling systems from prototype to production under tight constraints. He is also a full‑stack developer and blockchain enthusiast who steps into project management when needed, reflecting a pragmatic, product-focused approach. Based in the Bay Area with roots in HPC and a CS degree from the University of Michigan, he thrives at the intersection of high-performance compute and operationally rigorous engineering.
15 years of coding experience