Mike Lococo is an engineering manager based in the NYC area with 12 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver reliable, scalable deployment and data platforms. He currently leads a Datadog team building deployment tooling and previously grew and split data platform teams for Cassandra and Postgres, combining hands-on engineering with people-first, servant leadership. His technical strengths span Kubernetes Operators, Go, Python, Clojure, and large-scale Cassandra operations, with a history of rapid prototyping (a Kubernetes Operator prototype delivered in three weeks) and infrastructure automation. Mike has deep experience in SRE, performance tuning, and security from roles across Datadog, DataStax, Accenture, and higher education, often bridging product ambiguity to practical delivery. Colleagues describe him as a leader who balances low technical debt with pragmatic feature delivery while mentoring engineers and scaling teams. He brings a curious, systems-oriented mindset—equally comfortable debugging JVM performance as designing CI/CD platforms that enable other teams to ship safely at scale.
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