Mike M
Head Of Field Engineering at Conduktor
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike M is a pragmatic technology and go-to-market leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling presales and field engineering organizations across enterprise observability and cloud-native tooling. Currently Head of Field Engineering in Portland, he has a track record of founding and rapidly growing SE teams—driving >600% ARR growth at Cortex and helping groundcover grow >300% in its first year—while closing strategic Fortune 10 deals. Hands-on with APIs, microservices, DevOps and observability, he also contributes as a back-end developer to prominent open-source projects like Datadog’s integrations-core (notably improving HDFS and vSphere checks and SSL validation). He mixes player‑coach leadership—recruiting, enabling and promoting regional leaders—with product-facing technical strategy to align roadmaps, demos, and POVs to value-based GTM motion. Comfortable operating globally (built Datadog’s first APAC SE organization and drove major regional revenue gains), he pairs an Executive MBA and ongoing AI/ML studies with deep electrical-engineering roots to bridge technical depth and commercial impact.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Executive MBA Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Quantic School of Business and TechnologyThe University of ArizonaAI and Machine Learning, AI and Machine Learning at DeepAtlas
Github Skills (5)
datadog10
hdfs10
python10
integrations10
vsphere7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/integrations-core
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 22 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on improving the Datadog integrations for HDFS. They implemented and refined functionality for the HDFS namenode and datanode checks, adding an `validate_ssl` flag for secure connections. Furthermore, they fixed a missing comma, ensuring the codebase's proper functionality. Additionally, the user made a change to improve case sensitivity handling in the vsphere integration.
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
themsquared/datadog-checks
Mar 2018 - Nov 2020
Custom Checks Written for Datadog
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 years 8 months
golangrisk-assessmentchecksdatadog
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