Summary
Michael P is a founder-CEO and former Google software engineer who blends hands-on systems engineering with enterprise teaching, leading Top Developer Academy and instructing over 200,000 students worldwide. With a decade-plus background building high-throughput Java backends for ads platforms and real-time video systems (Rubicon Project, Google, DAQRI), he specializes in software architecture, system design, multithreading, and performance optimization. He has driven multi-region cloud deployments, rearchitected services to double throughput, and optimized latency/CPU at production scale. As an accredited CPSA-F trainer and Udemy Business Partner, he turns deep production experience into practical courses and career coaching that help engineers land senior and leadership roles. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs academic rigor from Technion-trained engineering roots with pragmatic deliveryโan engineer who moved from low-level C/C++ systems and device drivers to scalable cloud-native Java platforms. An interesting through-line: his career spans both embedded realโtime video and massive ad-serving infrastructure, giving him rare visibility into performance at micro and macro scales.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, Hebrew, Russian