Summary
Michael Clifford is a seasoned technology leader with 15+ years building and operating high-traffic e-commerce and content platforms, currently serving as Director of System Operations at Evite. He progressed from hands-on PHP development to executive engineering roles, leading platform migrations to AWS, consolidation after M&A, and operationalizing product-driven teams. Michael combines deep infrastructure and application architecture expertise with a product sensibility—having shaped roadmaps and shipping core features for consumer apps, transactional notifications, and marketplace platforms. He keeps a practitioner’s edge through personal projects in AWS, Go, Elixir, and Docker, and is known for pragmatic efficiency improvements that reduce operational toil. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs a CS background from Cal State Fullerton with a long track record of scaling systems and mentoring cross-functional engineering squads. An authentic "tech geek," he still enjoys prototyping infrastructure and backend services in his spare time when not chasing his kids around the playground.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Don Bosco Technical Institute
California State University, Fullerton