Summary
Michael Brown is a Senior Product Manager and cloud/virtualization specialist with over two decades of hands-on experience architecting, deploying, and operating enterprise SDDC and cloud solutions. He has progressed from systems and virtualization engineering to senior technical and product leadership roles at VMware and Microsoft and now leads product efforts at Google, bringing deep domain expertise across vSphere, NSX, Azure VMware Solution, and telco cloud reference architectures. Michael holds an exceptional collection of certifications (including VCDX DCV/NV and AWS Solutions Architect – Professional) that underscore his ability to translate advanced networking and virtualization constraints into producible architectures. Known for creating customer-facing reference architectures and technical content, he combines field-driven requirements gathering with rigorous design and testing practices. Based in Houston, he uniquely pairs old-school datacenter experience (large ESX fleet upgrades and disaster recovery programs) with modern multi-cloud product strategy, enabling pragmatic migrations and carrier-grade cloud designs.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
I attended IVY Tech State College