Michael Roy
South San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Roy is a product manager and marketer with 11 years of hands-on experience shipping developer-focused virtualization products at VMware, currently driving the Fusion and Workstation lines that let millions run production-like cloud environments on their desktops. He blends technical fluency—contributing to projects like Homebrew, Octant, and Minikube—with product and go-to-market strategy, specializing in Kubernetes, containerization, and developer advocacy. Prior roles include leading open-source-focused data center operations and managing small engineering and IT teams at startups, giving him both operational depth and startup pragmatism. A Stanford-educated marketer who repeatedly completed Pragmatic Institute courses in product management and marketing, he’s a generalist who codes, tells the product story, and bridges developer needs with business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
Full course completion multiple times, Product Management, Product Marketing, Full course completion multiple times, Product Management, Product Marketing at Pragmatic InstituteNiagara CollegeMarketing, Marketing at Stanford University
French, English
Github Skills (92)
docker-machine10
ruby10
vms10
gemma10
k8s10
podman10
linux10
kubectl10
containerd10
mistral10
golang10
ollama10
libvirt10
kubernetes10
container10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mikeroySoft/esxlab-fusion
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 3 pushes in 16 days
vmware-archive/vctl-docs
Jan 2020 - Apr 2022
VMware vctl Docs
Contributions:37 commits, 16 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 3 months
vmscontainerdlibvirtfusionvmware
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