Summary
Mike Baldini is a Senior Data Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building scalable data platforms and query planes across cloud providers, now contributing at Microsoft while also holding a principal engineering role at Xemelgo. He has led architecture and implementation of data lakes, multi-tenant pipelines, and cost/usage analytics for AWS, Azure, and GCP, and designed systems that process petabytes of telemetry and billing data. Mike combines deep systems and backend expertise (from OCI logging and cloud cost tooling to Akka-based streaming engines) with practical operational know-how from running thousands of databases and enterprise services. Outside work he’s a persistent tinkerer—writing code, building electronics, and restoring a supercharged '74 Nova—which informs his hands-on approach to engineering and mentoring. He’s also committed to teaching STEM to his two sons, reflecting a pattern of translating complex technical concepts into practical learning.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Economics, BA Economics at California State University, Bakersfield