Summary
Michael Malis is a founder and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building data infrastructure and marketing platforms. As the founder of Freshpaint (YC S19), he helps hospitals and healthcare systems run high-performance marketing while preserving patient privacy, and continues to lead the company’s product and technical direction. Previously he led Heap’s database team, scaling petabyte Postgres clusters and delivering systems that saved the company over a million dollars. Hands-on across backend systems, pipelines, and testing frameworks, he blends deep systems expertise with product-focused execution. Based in San Francisco, he’s focused on making analytics plumbing reliable and privacy-aware for regulated industries.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer