Michael Tidwell
Senior Vice President Of Engineering at ZBD
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Tidwell is a Senior Vice President of Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, and security-focused systems, currently leading engineering at ZBD. He blends technical leadership with deep Bitcoin and Lightning Network expertise, having co-founded TABConf and the Atlanta BitDevs meetup network and worked on Lightning-enabled game platform prototypes. His background spans data engineering, ETL, load testing, and BI across startups and enterprises, with practical experience running AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, and observability stacks like TICK and Grafana. Michael pairs a Magna Cum Laude BS in Systems and Security and a business minor with a track record of turning complex technical requirements into production-ready, secure services. He is known for translating technical value to broader stakeholders and for grassroots community-building in the Bitcoin space. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to iterate quickly on proof-of-concept products (from game servers to payment rails) while retaining production-grade operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science - 3.8/4.0 - Magna Cum Laude Information Technology Systems and Security with a Minor in Business Administration, Bachelor's of Science - 3.8/4.0 - Magna Cum Laude Information Technology Systems and Security with a Minor in Business Administration at Georgia Gwinnett College
Github Skills (150)
api-management10
dashboard10
postgresql10
reverse-proxy10
lightning-network10
peer-to-peer10
grafana10
terraform10
actix-web10
cryptocurrency10
elasticsearch10
serverless10
microservices10
game-development10
influxdb10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
miketwenty1/tidwell-training-academy
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
miketwenty1/terraform-aws-bitcoind
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Bitcoin core daemon spun up on EC2 instance in AWS.
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 year 4 months
awsbitcoin-core
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