Mike Perkowitz
Software Engineer at Apple
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Perkowitz is a seasoned software engineer and leader with over two decades of experience building production-grade machine learning, NLP, and data analytics systems across startups and major tech firms. He has a proven track record of architecting scalable, maintainable pipelines—most notably unifying HBO’s analytics platform and leading a zero-downtime migration of user data—and has held senior engineering and management roles at Google, Apple, and HBO. Comfortable both in research (Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington) and hands-on engineering, he blends expertise in Java, Node, Kubernetes, graph databases, and data-driven product design. As a former CTO and senior data scientist, he has led IP strategy and commercialization efforts, translating advanced user modeling into shipped consumer features. Based in Seattle, he pairs deep academic grounding in ML and cognition with practical experience delivering resilient systems at scale.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of WashingtonScB, Cognitive Science and Linguistics, ScB, Cognitive Science and Linguistics at Brown University
Github Skills (24)
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raspberry8
daisy8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
perkowitz/sequence
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:1 release, 79 commits, 24 PRs in 2 months
launchpadunixraspberry-picontrollerbox
perkowitz/issho-launchpad-firmware
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Firmware for the Novation Launchpad Pro
Contributions:5 releases, 60 commits, 20 PRs in 3 months
firmware
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