Summary
Michael Grove is a seasoned technology leader and founder with nearly 20 years in software engineering, architecture, and product leadership, currently serving as SVP Engineering & Product and board member at Stardog. He built and scaled Stardog’s engineering organization from consulting roots into a product-led company, recruiting a world-class team and bootstrapping the product management function and roadmap processes. An expert in large-scale databases, knowledge graphs, API design, and AI, he blends hands-on engineering and architecture with strategic product decision-making and customer-facing pre-sales work. His career spans research-grade semantic web work at the University of Maryland through commercial productization, including open-source contributions that seeded the Stardog platform. Based in Virginia, he is comfortable moving between code, architecture, and company-wide strategy, and he still occasionally speaks and engages with customers and partners.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Maryland
English, Spanish