Michael Cantú
Senior Enterprise Account Executive at GitHub
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Cantú is a Senior Enterprise Account Executive at GitHub with 11 years of experience bridging technical engineering and customer-facing roles. He rose through GitHub’s technical ranks from Solutions Engineer to Principal Solutions Engineer before moving into enterprise sales, blending deep product knowledge with strategic account leadership. Prior roles at Microsoft (Azure Premier Field Engineer), IBM, and Toshiba underpin his strength in cloud, systems hardware, and applied engineering. Based in Houston, he pairs an Electrical Engineering degree from Texas A&M with continued language study at Rice, reflecting both technical rigor and cross-cultural curiosity. Known among peers as a “spiritual SE,” he brings a consultative, empathetic approach to complex platform adoption and developer enablement. His uncommon arc from hands-on engineering to enterprise sales gives him a rare ability to translate technical trade-offs into business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Glasscock School of Continuing Studies Spanish & Portuguese, Glasscock School of Continuing Studies Spanish & Portuguese at Rice UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (33)
javascript10
nodejs10
mongodb10
open-government9
github-issues9
scanner9
scanning9
github8
vulnerability7
trivy7
container-image7
docker-container7
security6
vulnerabilities5
devsecops5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
octodemo/calculator-1
Nov 2021 - May 2023
A node.js demo application
Contributions:13 PRs, 40 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 6 months
node-jsjavascriptnodejsmongodb
octodemo/advanced-security-terraform
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Vulnerable Terraform Projects - Fork of https://github.com/bridgecrewio/terragoat
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes in 7 months
advanced-security
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