Michael Gentili is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations across startups and public companies in property tech, telecom, finance, construction, and real estate. He blends deep computer engineering expertise—from low-level systems and performance optimization to cloud infrastructure, FinTech, and security—with hands-on operational leadership, having led global engineering, IT, and security functions at Opendoor and earlier technical transformations at OANDA. As a repeat founder and former CTO who managed a successful acquisition, he excels at bridging product, people, and process to deliver mission-critical platforms, ERP and transaction systems, and CI/CD/F-Infrastructure programs. He also teaches core programming courses at the University of Toronto, signaling a commitment to mentoring the next generation of engineers. Notably, his career includes driving high-throughput trading systems and large-scale migrations (OS, ISP, and platform modernizations), reflecting a rare combination of pragmatic systems engineering and strategic program leadership.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
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Michael Gentili - Founder at University of Toronto