Michael Lin
Principal Product Manager at Splunk
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Lin is a seasoned product and GTM leader with over two decades of experience architecting cloud, virtualization, storage, and networking products and launching them into enterprise markets. As Founder & Managing Partner of OptimaGTM and a former Principal Product Manager at Splunk and AWS, he has driven major cloud transitions, global rollouts, and rapid time-to-delivery improvements that turned multi-week deployments into one-day deliveries. He combines technical depth from engineering and computer science training with MBA-level business acumen to build cross-functional teams, define agile processes, and craft go-to-market strategies that resonate with field sales and customers. Notably, he has repeatedly created new product lines and partnerships (including VMware and Lenovo-acquired ZeroStack work) that accelerated market entry and adoption. Based in Palo Alto, he blends hands-on product execution with strategic GTM architecture for B2B and AI startups, favoring measurable customer outcomes over feature lists.
6 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at San José State UniversityEngineer’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinMBA Business Administration, MBA Business Administration at Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business
Chinese
Github Skills (30)
meilisearch10
search-engine10
opensearch10
ssl10
audit10
authentication10
data-masking10
opensearch-dashboards10
analytics10
java10
security10
restful10
indices10
certificate10
role-based10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
opendistro-for-elasticsearch/deprecated-security-parent
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
[DO NOT USE - DEPRECATED as of v1.4.0] Parent repo for Open Distro for Elasticsearch Security plugin; Merged into security repo.
Contributions:30 commits, 27 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 months
mergedelasticsearch-securitydo-not-usesecuritykibana
ticheng-aws/OpenSearch
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Contributions:295 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 8 months
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