Summary
Michael Michael is an experienced product and software executive with over a decade of leadership in cloud-native platforms, currently serving as Executive Director at EY after leading Nuvalence's product and platform practice. He has a proven track record shipping revenue-generating and open-source software, having driven Harbor and Contour through CNCF graduation/incubation and chaired Kubernetes SIG-Windows from inception to stable Windows support. At VMware he led Tanzu product strategy including DevSecOps-focused offerings and cross-cloud container lifecycle capabilities, blending technical depth with go-to-market execution. He combines hands-on maintainer experience with senior product management and partnership-building across major cloud vendors and security vendors. A Stanford and UT Austin alumnus with an MBA in technology management, he brings rare cross-functional fluency spanning engineering, product, and community leadership. Less obvious: he routinely navigates both the open-source governance and enterprise sales worlds, turning community projects into broadly adopted commercial integrations.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Masters Business Administration in Technology Management, Masters Business Administration in Technology Management at University of Phoenix
High School Diploma Sciences, High School Diploma Sciences at Pascal English School
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Greek