Michael Kowalchik
Founder & CEO at Matterbeam
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Kowalchik is a serial founder and engineering leader with 16 years of experience building data and platform architectures that scale from startup prototypes to public-company growth. As Founder & CEO of Matterbeam and former SVP of Architecture and Data at Pluralsight, he led integrations of polyglot technology stacks, designed next-generation data integration platforms, and helped steer the company through rapid expansion and a ~$2B IPO. He co-founded Smarterer and invented a computer-adaptive testing algorithm, blending machine learning with product engineering to measure skills at scale. Earlier roles in advanced R&D and hardware design give him deep systems-level insight into performance and architecture. Based in Boston, he combines entrepreneurial grit with technical breadth, often tackling problems others accept as inevitable—like broken data.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (33)
low-level10
aws10
aws-cli10
cli10
binary-serialization9
producer-consumer9
python-web9
pyramid9
c-extension8
bottle8
sink8
avro8
serialization7
mvc7
deserialization7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mikepk/spavro
Feb 2020 - Nov 2023
Spavro is a (sp)eedier avro library -- Spavro is a fork of the official Apache AVRO python 2 implementation with the goal of greatly improving data read deserialization and write serialization performance.
Contributions:5 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 9 months
avropythondeserializationgoalserialization
smarterer/leaderboard
Jan 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years 2 months
apidocker
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