Michael Wiederhold is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-performance, scalable infrastructure and application frameworks for cloud platforms, currently managing Application Infrastructure at Databricks from San Francisco. He specializes in distributed systems, networking, databases, and low-level languages (Java, C, C++), and has led teams delivering service mesh, rate limiting, and gateway infrastructure that support massive-scale applications. Previously at Couchbase he progressed from core database engineer to senior manager, creating the internal DCP streaming protocol, the Enterprise Backup/Restore product, and founding the Autonomous Operator team that automated Couchbase cluster management on Kubernetes for hundreds of customers. Michael combines hands-on systems design with people leadership, favoring pragmatic solutions that make complex distributed operations reliably automatable.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara
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Michael Wiederhold - Engineering Leadership at Databricks