Michael Privat
Chief Data & Engineering Officer
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Privat is a seasoned engineering executive who leads enterprise-scale transformation as Chief Data & Engineering Officer, currently overseeing ~700 engineers across the US and India. With roots in early European computing and a stint as a visiting scientist at MIT, he blends deep technical pedigree (MSCS from Nice) with decades of hands-on architecture and cloud migration experience. At Availity he implemented DORA-driven practices, SRE/DevOps, and architecture governance that raised release cadence, cut customer-defect escapes, and turned technical debt into strategic leverage in a regulated healthcare context. Known for a calm, disciplined leadership style, he raises talent density through high hiring bars, coaching, and pairing while protecting developer experience and operational reliability. He consistently converts stalled organizations into predictable, high-quality delivery engines where speed is a byproduct of better thinking and ownership—not fear. Less obvious: he pairs a lifelong coder’s curiosity (coding since age eight) with formal people leadership since 2020, making him equally at home untangling systems as he is igniting team pride.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematique Superieures - FRVisiting scientist Conversational AI, Visiting scientist Conversational AI at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMSCS Computer Science, MSCS Computer Science at ESSI - University of Nice - Sophia AntipolisDesigning AI Products Artificial Intelligence, Designing AI Products Artificial Intelligence at MIT xPRO
Github Skills (29)
trend10
oscillator10
momentum10
trading9
financial9
finance9
volatility9
docker8
python8
go8
pandas8
golang8
ecosystem7
container7
numpy7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mprivat/ta
Nov 2019 - Aug 2024
Technical Analysis Library using Pandas (Python)
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
data-analysispythontechnical-analysis-librarydata-scienceanalysis
mprivat/xgql
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
xgql is a GraphQL schema manipulation tool and extensions.
Contributions:1 review, 58 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
graphql-schema
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