Michael Pliskin
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google TPU Reliability
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Pliskin is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google specializing in end-to-end reliability for TPU systems, with 20+ years of hands-on leadership building dependable distributed systems across startups and planet-scale companies. He combines deep compiler and systems expertise—parsing, codegen, optimization and generics—with broad platform experience from embedded and mobile to cloud-native infrastructure. Michael has repeatedly led large transformation efforts that eliminated systemic failure modes, reduced maintenance costs, and improved performance and revenue impact across multi‑thousand‑engineer organizations. A former CTO and SVP of Technology, he pairs product-minded engineering with operational rigor, having architected HIPAA-compliant cloud stacks and real‑time collaboration services at scale. Based in Sunnyvale, he is as comfortable writing low-level compiler code as driving company‑wide change management and insider-risk reductions.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State UniversityHigh school Mathematics, High school Mathematics at Anychkov Lyceum
English, Russian, German
Stackoverflow
2,352reputation
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31answers
26questions
Github Skills (68)
linux10
semantics10
persistent10
android10
user-interface10
compiler9
windows9
ios9
openwrt9
data-structures9
windows-runtime9
cross-platform9
raii9
macos9
win2d9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pleaseking/openwrt-packages
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Community maintained packages for OpenWrt. Documentation for submitting pull requests is in CONTRIBUTING.md
Contributions:3 pushes, 4 branches in 2 days
LEAPInnovations/s3-log-parse
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:4 pushes in 19 days
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