Mike Shaver
Vice President Of 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
26 years of employment as a software developer
Lisgar Collegiate Institute
Github Skills (123)
tailscale10
wireguard10
security10
window-manager10
vpn10
octoprint10
autohotkey10
tiling10
jekyll10
oauth10
linux9
browser9
smartthings9
rust9
ruby9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
shaver/qmk_firmware
Jan 2023 - Mar 2024
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
rp2040firmwareavratmelusb
shaver/Awful.app
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024
Something Awful Forums browser for iOS
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
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