Michael Gerstenhaber
VP, Product Management at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Gerstenhaber is a seasoned product leader with over a decade of experience building cloud and AI products, now serving as VP of Product Management for Google Cloud's Vertex AI and Agents. He progressed from software engineering at Cisco to senior product leadership at Datadog, then contributed to AI product work at Anthropic before joining Google, giving him rare end-to-end perspective from code to platform strategy. Michael is skilled at scaling observability and AI platforms, translating deep technical roots in network and systems engineering into product decisions that prioritize reliability and developer experience. He has repeatedly grown product teams and roadmaps through rapid cloud-native evolution, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform vision. Based in New York and trained in computer science at RPI, he combines enterprise-grade rigor with startup agility—a blend that helps teams ship complex, production-ready AI services.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (18)
monitoring10
hugo10
integrations10
agent10
datadog10
dd10
logging10
documentation10
stackdriver9
distributed-tracing9
profiling9
pmm9
otel9
apm-agent8
observability8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mikezvi/foodtrackermgersten
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
mikezvi/documentation
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
datadogdocumentation-site
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