Summary
Mike Dorman is a veteran DevOps and systems engineering professional with over two decades of experience designing and automating large-scale IaaS and cloud architectures for service providers. He spans the full stack—from data center, networking, and hardware to configuration management, application deployment, and monitoring—and has been instrumental in OpenStack and cloud operations at companies like GoDaddy and Twilio SendGrid. Comfortable leading prioritization in Agile teams, he’s proven effective in distributed and long-term remote roles and now teaches computer science as affiliate faculty. Mike’s background blends hands-on engineering with operational leadership, and his early DoD and developer roles give him a security-minded, systems-first perspective that informs pragmatic, production-ready designs.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
ME Electrical and Computer Engineering, ME Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder