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 (17)
boto10
aws-cli10
python-web9
apache-kafka8
c-extension8
deserialization8
mvc8
avro8
serialization7
kafka7
python7
api3
golang3
rails2
docker2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pluralsight/spavro
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
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:8 commits, 5 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 year 5 months
avrodeserializationpythonserialization
mikepk/spavro
Feb 2020 - Jun 2025
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, 11 pushes in 5 years 5 months
avrodeserializationpythonserialization
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