Michael Bordash
Senior Vice President, Research & Development at Syniverse
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Bordash is a veteran technology executive with 14 years of leadership in R&D, currently serving as SVP of Research & Development at Syniverse where he oversees mobile carrier, messaging, and CPaaS engineering, architecture, and data science. Previously a CTO for startups and product-led teams at RealNetworks' KONTXT and Xtify (acquired by IBM), he blends hands-on software engineering with strategic product and operations leadership across cloud-native and containerized platforms. His work spans AI-driven fraud and spam detection, having built notable projects like Fraud Monitor for iOS and the long-running InternetDJ, and he has driven billions-of-message scale analytics and intent classification systems. At IBM he was a Distinguished Engineer responsible for Watson Customer Engagement platforms and filed multiple patents as a Second Plateau inventor. He contributes to cybersecurity education as an advisory board member at Fairfield University, bringing practical AI/ML fraud-detection insights into academia. Known for pairing classical liberal arts training with deep technical breadth, he favors pragmatic, data-driven solutions to complex messaging and security problems.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BA Classics, Computer Science, BA Classics, Computer Science at New York UniversityExecutive Leadership, Executive Leadership at Center for Creative Leadership
Latin, English
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Github Skills (99)
crypto9
wordpress9
api9
exchange9
reasoning9
trading9
cryptocurrency9
google-auth9
watson9
wordpress-plugin9
ethereum9
bitcoin9
google-assistant9
chatbot8
music8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mbordash/blobinator
Dec 2016 - Aug 2021
Cognitive content and image analyzer plugin for Wordpress providing deep text analysis of articles and product descriptions.
Contributions:68 commits, 22 pushes, 7 tags in 4 years 9 months
cognitivewordpresswordpress-plugin
mbordash/DRADIS
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:189 pushes, 3 branches, 4 tags in 4 months
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