Mike Gaal
General Manager, Digital Natives, Americas
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMike Gaal is a strategic cloud sales and technical leader with 11+ years of experience driving Azure adoption and over $500M in cloud business across major enterprise accounts in the Americas. Currently General Manager, Digital Natives at Microsoft, he blends deep hands-on technical roots—from early Windows Server and virtualization engineering to cloud solution architecture—with senior sales negotiation and stakeholder management. Known for inspiring teams and partners through a mix of credibility and humor, he excels at translating complex technical capabilities into measurable business outcomes for Silicon Valley and West Coast customers. His background in ops automation and security benchmarking (including contributions to CIS guidance) reveals a pragmatic focus on compliance, efficiency, and scalable processes beneath the sales headline.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at University of San Francisco School of ManagementB.S., Technical Management, B.S., Technical Management at DeVry UniversitySonoma State University
Github Skills (39)
arm-templates10
arm10
azure10
azure-cosmos-db9
bicep9
docker8
cosmosdb8
golang8
microsoft-azure7
data-platform7
seq7
partitioning7
azure-blob-storage7
mongodb7
rna-seq6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Azure-DDP
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Framework to build general purpose distributed data platform in Azure Virtual Machines to support various platforms like Hadoop, Cassandra and MongoDB.
Contributions:53 commits, 1 PR in 12 days
data-platformmongodbmachinesplatformspartitioning
magaal/Azure-DDP
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:57 pushes in 3 months
general-purposenosqlcassandramachinesplatforms
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