Summary
Michael Ten-pow is a software leader and founder with 17 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, storage, and privacy-preserving services. He was an early AWS engineer who rose to Principal Engineer at Amazon and contributed to S3’s strong consistency design, then led privacy-focused work in retail and a stint as Chief Engineer at Bluecrew. Now CEO of Tensor9, he helps vendors unlock customers who cannot share sensitive data by blending deep systems expertise with practical product thinking. A Princeton-trained compiler enthusiast, he brings rare cross-domain fluency—from low-level systems and databases to real-world privacy architectures—and a consistent focus on societal impact.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Princeton University