Summary
Michael Biven is a principal software engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure across bare metal, VMs, private/public cloud, containers, and serverless environments. Currently at Salesforce, he has a track record of leading migrations, PCI and privacy-driven infrastructure modernization, and incident response at scale for companies like NationBuilder, Ticketmaster, Beats Music, and Change.org. He blends hands-on systems engineering and platform ownership with people leadership, mentoring, and a pragmatic security-first mindset that includes DFIR and vulnerability management. Notably, his background as a firefighter and fire inspector informs a disciplined, safety-focused approach to team health and operational resilience. He enjoys turning legacy complexity into auditable, repeatable processes and helping teams grow as much as he does the systems they run.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer