Michael Mccanna
Infrastructure Engineer at Salient
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Mccanna is an infrastructure engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable systems across startups and larger tech companies from Amazon and Dropbox to a string of high-growth ventures in the Bay Area. He has held technical and executive roles—co-founding Nectome, serving as CTO at Flair, and running operations and staff engineering at Immunefi—bringing a blend of hands-on engineering, product-minded leadership, and operational rigor. His background spans low-latency speech recognition at Amazon, real-time collaboration and backend work at Zulip and Dropbox, and cutting-edge infrastructure concerns in security and preservation-focused startups. Now based in San Francisco, he focuses on scalable infrastructure and platform reliability while advising security-focused projects, reflecting an unusual mix of deep systems experience and startup operator instincts. Colleagues would note his ability to move between code, architecture, and company strategy, and an uncommon early career focus on connectomics and brain preservation that informs his long-term thinking about systems and data.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (S.B.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (S.B.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (57)
socket-io10
javascript10
react-native10
web-application10
python10
electron10
django-framework10
django10
typescript10
websocket10
apache10
chat10
zulip10
orm10
slack10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
acrefoot/zulip
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:45 pushes, 11 branches in 2 months
group-chatchatzulip
zulip/django
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:1 commit, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
frameworkdeadlinesweb-framework
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