Summary
Mike Senn is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and maturing developer-facing platforms, currently shaping observability, on-call practices, and monitoring at Salesforce. He has deep expertise in web frameworks and UI platforms—having scaled Visualforce to tens of billions of monthly page views and millions of users—while also delivering cross-cutting platform features like Lightning Message Service and PDF-rendering services. Comfortable across stacks (Java, C#, C++, web sockets, Heroku deployments), he blends hands-on engineering with program-level leadership, running small agile teams and coordinating security, UX, and localization. Mike’s background in secure integrations and monitoring is paired with a strong academic foundation (BS in Computer/Electrical Engineering, MS in Computer Science), and a practical bent for developer tools and automation that helps other engineers move faster. An effective communicator and trainer, he’s presented best practices at major conferences and formalized on-call and synthetic monitoring programs that improved platform reliability.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering, 3.8 GPA, BS, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering, 3.8 GPA at North Carolina State University