Summary
Mike Wilson is a Staff/Principal engineer and technical leader with over 20 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and shipping platform products that drive measurable business value. He has led platform transformations at large enterprises including UnitedHealth Group and Target—delivering multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms, data-streaming and storage fabrics, and conversational AI capabilities underpinned by ethical LLM practices. A member of UHG’s Academy of Technology and co-founder of the Minneapolis Kubernetes meetup, he blends hands-on engineering with people and process leadership, creating bootcamps and accelerator teams to raise engineering velocity. Known as a “purveyor of simplicity,” he repeatedly turns complex infrastructure into pragmatic, observable, and scalable platforms while contributing practical open-source tools and operational patterns.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
AAS Electronics & Computer Technology, AAS Electronics & Computer Technology at Brown College
Core CLE Requirements, Core CLE Requirements at University of Minnesota