Mike Wright
Data Engineer
Florida, United States
Summary
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SeniorMike Wright is a senior engineering manager with over 15 years of experience building and scaling high-performance platforms in adtech and SaaS, now leading at Datadog after heading engineering at Button. He has a strong track record of growing teams (hiring 20+ engineers with low attrition), optimizing cloud spend (cutting AWS costs by ~30% and GCP by tens of thousands monthly), and operating systems that handled billions of daily requests and peak retail loads. Skilled across distributed systems, security/encryption, data pipelines, and multi-cloud infrastructure, he combines hands-on technical depth with organizational design and cross-functional leadership. At AppNexus he helped run real-time platforms at extreme scale (thousands of servers, billions of impressions) while driving 99.999% uptime and internal promotions from intern to staff. Based in Florida, he pairs pragmatic cost- and reliability-focused engineering with a bias for ownership, transparency, and developer growth. An early-career consultant and CS teaching assistant, he brings both enterprise discipline and a knack for mentoring engineers through rapid change.
11 years of coding experienceGithub contributions (5)
michelwright/Airlines-Survey-ASP.NET
Aug 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
michelwright/kpi
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 13 pushes in 22 days
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