Summary
Mike Oswell is a Principal Engineer based in Vancouver with 14 years of experience building secure, highly available cloud and mobile systems across startups and large enterprises. He’s held senior technical and leadership roles at NVIDIA, Menlo Security, and Cisco, blending architecture, site reliability, and identity expertise to drive scalable production services. Known for bridging development and operations, he focuses on security, availability, and engineering practices that enable teams to ship reliably at scale. His background includes managing SRE teams and leading identity and mobile-focused engineering efforts, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary view of product, ops, and security. Colleagues rely on him to tame complexity in distributed systems while keeping pragmatic delivery front and center.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University College of the Caribou