Mike La Grasta
Founder at IT Multiply
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolMike La Grasta is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 14 years of hands-on software and IT leadership experience, currently running IT Multiply from San Diego. He has guided engineering and operations at scale—serving as senior technology executive at DrJays.com where he stabilized systems, reduced outages by 94%, cut infrastructure costs substantially, and supported platforms handling millions of daily views and up to $90M in annual sales. Comfortable toggling between CTO/CIO responsibilities and code, Mike has architected distributed microservices, built hybrid cloud data centers, and driven automation that materially improved performance and margins. His background includes early analytics work that later fed into products absorbed by major platforms, and a track record of pragmatic vendor negotiation and security-first operations. Known for ego-free, hands-on leadership, he grows high-performing teams while still rolling up his sleeves for architecture and proofs of concept. Currently focused on consulting for SaaS and professional services, he combines enterprise-scale reliability with startup agility.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (35)
perl8
moose7
html6
adb6
nodejs6
metaprogramming6
android6
desktop-application6
npm6
cross-platform6
cli5
ack5
grep5
mongoose5
cpan4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mnlagrasta/mnlagrasta.github.io
May 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 1 month
mnlagrasta/k0dr.com
Aug 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:20 PRs, 67 pushes, 11 branches in 7 years 8 months
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