Michael Cohen
Managing Director at PwC
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Cohen is a seasoned data engineering leader with nearly a decade of hands-on experience deploying and extending Palantir Foundry, first as a power-user at Palantir and later as Lead Foundry Architect at PG&E. He specializes in building robust data pipelines and cost-attribution workflows to identify and reduce cloud spend, and has a track record of turning new Foundry features into practical operational products. As a Managing Director in the PwC/Palantir Alliance he now leads national teams, shapes Foundry strategy for clients, and drives recruitment and training for Foundry engineers. His background in physics (Caltech PhD) and early embedded-analyst roles give him a rare combination of rigorous analytical thinking and deep product-level empathy for users. He mentors technical leaders, balances delivery cost and compute efficiency, and has repeatedly translated complex business logic into reliable, production-grade data systems. An award-winning implementer, he’s known for unlocking new platform capabilities that yield measurable improvements in operations and customer experience.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Mathematical Physics, BSc (Hons) Mathematical Physics at University of CanterburyCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (58)
addon9
cop8
chat8
signal8
solaris8
tab-management8
messenger7
freebsd7
witcher7
firefox-addon7
java7
linux7
tarball7
tabs-management7
kotlin7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kevL/TccScripts
Feb 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 release, 26 commits, 37 PRs in 3 years 5 months
badungu/PST-SaveNordomTweak
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Qwinn's Save Nordom Tweak for PST:EE
Contributions:1 PR in 1 day
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