Summary
Michael Briggs is a seasoned technology executive with over two decades of hands-on engineering and leadership experience, now serving as Head of Cloud Data Solutions driving TD’s migration of a 20+ petabyte on-prem data estate to Azure for thousands of analytics consumers. He blends enterprise architecture, cloud-native data engineering, and operational rigor—having led large distributed teams and $40M portfolios to modernize APIs, implement microservices, and automate deployments at scale. Michael has a proven track record building high-throughput data platforms (400+TB ad warehouse, Exadata high-performance ledgers) and turning brittle systems into resilient, always-on services with DevSecOps and event-driven patterns. He’s comfortable translating business SLAs into technical roadmaps and has repeatedly delivered measurable outcomes: dramatic error reductions, faster release cadences, and multi-million-file migrations. Based in the Charlotte metro area and grounded in a Computer Science degree from Rutgers, he combines deep platform expertise with pragmatic delivery instincts that prioritize reliability and measurable cost/risk reductions.
8 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Camden