Mike Weaver
Chief Technology Officer at LA CTO Forum
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Weaver is a seasoned engineering executive with 15+ years scaling teams from seed-stage startups to 150+ person global organizations, currently serving as VP of Engineering in Santa Barbara. He combines deep technical experience in AI, B2B SaaS, voice and distributed systems with a pragmatic, trust-driven leadership style that preserves velocity and culture. Mike has a track record of driving major product transformations—replatforming core products to leverage LLM/AI, launching successful second products that exceeded revenue goals, and expanding offerings into European markets. He’s built high-performing ML and DevOps organizations, led complex acquisitions and integrations, and delivered compliance (PCI, SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR) with minimal disruption to engineering productivity. Known for tripling team productivity through architectural and process changes, he blends hands-on technical judgment with executive strategy and a preference for measurable, people-centered outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (48)
chrome-extension10
coverage9
rspec9
mutation-testing9
ruby-on-rails9
read-the-docs9
minitest9
kaltura8
rails8
code-review8
slack-bot8
static-analysis8
mutant8
ruby7
video-player7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mikeweaver/jira_linker_slack_bot
Dec 2016 - Aug 2020
A SlackBot that responds to messages that contain JIRA issue keys with a message that contains details about the JIRA issues. Runs in Amazon Lambda.
Contributions:17 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
jiralambdaslack-bot
mikeweaver/git-conflict-detector
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 178 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 2 months
branchesownersrubyruby-scriptconflicts
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