Michael Cata
Director, International Strategy
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Cata is a strategic product leader with a decade of experience translating data and policy into international growth for marketplace platforms, currently directing International Strategy at Etsy from Cincinnati. He blends management consulting rigor, product management practice, and hands-on coding—comfortable with R and analytical tooling—to drive insights-led expansion and post-merger integration. His background spans founding a boutique strategy firm, government digital product work at 18F, and analytics roles at major media and financial firms, giving him a rare mix of public-sector product discipline and private-sector scale execution. Known for turning ambiguous cross-functional problems into measurable strategy and product roadmaps, he frequently bridges stakeholders across markets, operations, and engineering.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics, Political Science Dual Major, Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics, Political Science Dual Major at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (18)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
michaelccata/michaelccata
May 2016 - Feb 2025
personal site build (jekyll)
Contributions:5 PRs, 70 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 10 months
jekyll
michaelccata/ShinyEnronAppEmails
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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