Michael Xu is a Head of Software based in Los Angeles with 14 years of experience building secure, networked systems across startups and large tech firms. He combines deep application security expertise from long tenure at Snap with hands-on cryptography and encrypted messaging work at XMTP Labs and as a co-founder/CTO at Proxy. At Mango Inc. he moved from individual contributor to leading the software organization, demonstrating both technical depth and people leadership. His background includes internships at Google, Palantir, and Audible and a Computer Science degree from MIT, reflecting strong foundations in systems and security. Colleagues know him for pairing pragmatic engineering with a security-first mindset and for translating complex threat models into operational controls.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 10 months
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