Michael Vallen
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Acceleration Ventures
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Vallen is a seasoned technology leader and serial founder with 14 years of experience building enterprise-grade software, e-commerce platforms, and data-driven product teams. As Co-Founder and CTO of DirectWay Health and co-founder of Acceleration Ventures, he combines startup grit with product vision to modernize tech stacks, drive digital transformation, and launch AI-enabled platforms for brokers and direct-to-consumer channels. He has led large offshore engineering teams, delivered measurable business outcomes—like drastically reducing fraud and improving conversion rates—and blends hands-on engineering fluency in Ruby, Elixir, Go, Rust, microservices, GraphQL, and ML with strategic product management. Bilingual in English, Portuguese, and Spanish and an MBA graduate of Stanford GSB, he’s as comfortable negotiating with investors as he is architecting resilient systems. Less obvious: he routinely pairs fintech-style decision algorithms and LLM/ML tooling with pragmatic e-commerce UX fixes to turn complex requirements into revenue-driving features.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMaster of Arts - MA, Marketing, Master of Arts - MA, Marketing at Fundação Armando Álvares PenteadoBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Spanish, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (4)
npm-scripts5
npm-package4
npm4
cdn4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MikeRuby/Spina
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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