Mike Shaver
VP, Engineering at Staircase Ventures
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Shaver is a seasoned technology leader with 15+ years building and scaling engineering organizations across startups and hyperscale companies, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering at Fastly. He combines deep product and platform experience—from browsers and JavaScript engines to security, edge compute, and developer platforms—with a proven track record of guiding teams through high-stakes transitions at Mozilla, Facebook, Shopify, and multiple startups. Known for empathetic, transparent leadership, he prioritizes psychological safety, diversity, and mental health while coaching founders and advising boards. Beyond executive roles he’s founded and advised ventures, helped incubate a unicorn at Real Ventures, and continues to support independent browser development on the Ladybird board—evidence of a pragmatic technologist who still enjoys "just messing around" with code.
15 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Lisgar Collegiate Institute
Github Skills (105)
wireguard10
tailscale10
home-assistant10
vpn10
linux10
android-api10
octoprint10
autohotkey10
oauth10
nixos9
smartthings9
rust9
nix9
ruby9
datasette9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
shaver/bluejay
May 2023 - Nov 2025
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
shaver/qmk_firmware
Jan 2023 - Dec 2025
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:16 pushes in 2 years 10 months
rp2040firmwareavratmelusb
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