Mike Arpaia
Managing Partner at Moonfire
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMike Arpaia is a managing partner and engineer with 13 years of experience building data infrastructure, distributed systems, and machine learning platforms from seed-stage startups to global enterprises. He architects and ships production ML systems and scalable data pipelines—most recently defining AI technical strategy and engineering at Moonfire, an AI-first venture firm. Prior roles include founding CTO at Kolide (creator of widely used osquery tooling), principal/architect at Workday where he launched a distributed embedding search, and engineering leadership at Meta and Etsy focusing on OS telemetry and realtime analytics. He is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like osquery, Velero, and Kolide Fleet, often implementing security, auth, and system-integration work. Based in Boulder, Mike blends hands-on backend and DevOps chops with policy-level AI advising, having supported the UK Government Office for Science’s AI Rapid Technology Assessment. Colleagues know him for turning complex security and distributed-systems problems into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (38)
kubernetes10
filesystem10
authorizations10
c-language10
package-management10
apidoc10
authentication10
user-authentication10
file-operations10
osquery10
security10
homebrew10
go10
api10
fileio10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kolide/fleet
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
A flexible control server for osquery fleets
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 247 commits, 106 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Mike's commits focused on implementing authentication, authorization, and user management features within the Kolide Fleet project. The changes included the creation of user models, validation of passwords, and the addition of various endpoints for managing users and their roles. The code modified files related to user management, authentication, and database interactions, all of which suggest a strong focus on back-end development.
host-instrumentationmacadminsecurityinfosecosquery
osquery/osquery
Jul 2014 - Mar 2018
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:3 releases, 713 commits, 200 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the internal structure and security aspects of the osquery project. They addressed path generation issues and made changes to the internal file structure. The user also implemented file system functionality and added core functionality such as the reading of config files and the listing of users. They also were involved with implementing the API.
instrumentationanalyticsoperating-systemsecuritysql
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