Mike Okner
Senior Engineering Manager at Salesforce
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolMike Okner is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building cloud, AI, security, and data solutions across startups, large enterprises, and public sector. Currently a Senior Engineering Manager at Salesforce, he previously founded Zaurus.ai to tackle AI-driven cloud cost optimization and led high-value consulting engagements at Slalom as a Senior Principal. His background includes architecting developer tooling for 5,000+ engineers at Monsanto/Bayer and delivering a fraud-detection pipeline at the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity that prevented hundreds of millions in losses. Mike brings a hands-on mindset—moving between leadership, founding, and individual contributor roles—to translate complex technical requirements into operational systems. Based in St. Louis with a BA in Mathematics and Russian, he combines analytical rigor with practical product sensibility and an appetite for building cost-efficient, production-ready infrastructure. An uncommon detail: he has experience turning consultancy engagements into product-first ventures, demonstrating both commercial and technical entrepreneurship.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA Mathematics & Russian Language, BA Mathematics & Russian Language at St. Olaf College
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Github Skills (105)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mikeokner/posix-mq
Aug 2014 - Apr 2022
A flexible Node.js binding for using POSIX message queues
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 7 years 9 months
message-queuenodejsposix
appfirst/statsd_clients
Aug 2013 - Sep 2014
A library of StatsD clients with AppFirst extensions
Contributions:56 commits in 1 year 1 month
statsd
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