Mike Saffitz
VP Of Engineering at Magnify
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMike Saffitz is a seasoned engineering executive with over 20 years in software and 15 years of leadership, currently serving as VP of Engineering in Seattle. He has built and scaled high-performing teams across startups, FinTech, mobile, and data-intensive products, co-founding Apptentive where his platform handled billions of API requests and SDK installs. At Stripe he drove major adoption and revenue growth in Reporting & Analytics and temporarily led Reliability to five-nines availability during large-scale architecture changes. Known as a compassionate manager and mentor, he consistently invests in recruiting, training, and developing engineering leaders. Mike blends hands-on technical depth—cloud-native, Kubernetes, NoSQL, and large-scale analytics—with strategic business fluency from his MBA, making him effective at aligning product, engineering, and executive priorities. An operator who also steps back to consult and recharge, he brings both startup grit and enterprise rigor to scaling resilient systems and teams.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Finance, Economics, Strategy, MBA, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Finance, Economics, Strategy at University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of BusinessBA, Computer Science, Mathematical Economics, BA, Computer Science, Mathematical Economics at Pomona CollegeUniversity of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (195)
postgresql10
operation10
python10
data-warehouse10
airbyte10
error-handler10
databases10
dse10
etl10
data-ingestion10
duckdb10
stacktrace10
ruby-client10
apptentive10
data-pipeline10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
msaffitz/mongolly
Jul 2012 - Oct 2018
Easy backups for EBS-based MongoDB Databases
Contributions:57 commits, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 6 years 4 months
databasesebsbackupsbackupmongodb
apptentive-engineering/chef-ebs
Jun 2014 - Sep 2016
Scalarium's EBS cookbook with added magic
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 3 months
cookbookmagicebschef-resourcemanaged-by-terraform
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