Mike Cotrone
Founder CEO at VistaTech, Inc.
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorMike Cotrone is a seasoned technology founder and CEO with 12+ years of executive leadership across SDN, datacenter, and managed services, currently helping Triad businesses find digital pathways through VistaTech. He built and scaled multiple companies—from founding Confiance and growing it to ~$35M revenue and 50 employees, to leading Intelligent Visibility’s Arista/VMware SDN practice and forging partnerships with Arista, VMware, Ingram, TechData, and Cisco. Mike blends deep hands-on systems engineering (multiple CCIEs and years at Cisco supporting large service providers) with strategic business development, technical sales, and product-minded software teams. He’s known for hiring, mentoring, and retaining elite engineering talent and for translating complex technical architectures into executive-level decisions and measurable growth. Comfortable in high-pressure environments, he brings an uncommon mix of field troubleshooting grit—having rebuilt school networks overnight—to boardroom strategy and customer advocacy.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
English, xojo, c#, Italian
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Github Skills (13)
xojo10
picklist10
realbasic6
cytoscapejs6
tab-panel5
calculation2
binding2
winapi2
windows1
ide1
subnet1
ipv41
libpcap1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mikecotrone/PhoneFormattingTextfield
Apr 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 3 years 10 months
mikecotrone/filmStripImageBrowser
Dec 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 49 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 5 months
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