Michael Gai
Chief Technology Officer at Embedded Insurance, Inc.
California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Gai is a hands-on CTO and founder with 13 years of senior leadership experience building and rescuing mission-critical enterprise software and SaaS products. He blends deep technical architecture skills with a storyteller’s approach to user needs, founding CoNarrative to unite visual storytelling and successful app delivery. Michael has repeatedly positioned companies for high-value acquisitions—most recently as SVP Engineering at Salty and earlier roles at Kaseya, Western Blue, and Marimba—while also leading product design and R&D for Fortune 100 clients. Based in California, he excels at making complex development projects painless and pragmatic, often stepping into rescuing large-scale initiatives and turning them into profitable outcomes. An unexpected strength is his background in religious studies, which informs his emphasis on narrative and human-centered design in technical strategy.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Religious Studies, B.A. Religious Studies at Humboldt State University
French
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Github Skills (11)
declarative-programming9
logic-programming9
functional-reactive-programming8
clojurescript7
clojure7
specification6
mvvm5
typescript3
microservices2
open-source2
orchestration1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CoNarrative/glujs
Jun 2012 - Apr 2017
Contributions:188 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 10 months
mvvm-frameworkspecificationmvvmext-jsext
mikegai/vtt
Mar 2026 - Apr 2026
Contributions:4 pushes in 21 days
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