Mike Wynholds
Board Member & Investor at Blank Metal
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolMike Wynholds is a serial founder and operator turned board member and investor, recently back in CEO mode after leading Carbon Five for nearly 25 years and scaling it to a 100-person agile product shop acquired for a 14x EBITDA multiple. He blends deep product engineering roots—from early roles at Netscape and dotcom-era Sparks—with strategic M&A and growth experience across enterprise and consumer clients like Google, Disney, Microsoft, and Coinbase. Based in Santa Monica, he advises and invests in early-stage companies while serving on multiple boards, bringing practical lessons from integrating a boutique consultancy into a larger professional services firm. Notably, his career spans hands-on software craftsmanship and company-building economics, giving him a rare perspective on how technical decisions map to long-term business value.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (38)
data-migration10
check-in10
espn10
slack-bot9
cassandra8
ruby-sdk7
solidworks7
memcached7
activerecord6
risk-assessment6
eagle6
nodejs5
robot5
performance-testing5
autocomplete5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
carbonfive/slacky
Apr 2016 - Aug 2019
Carbon Five Slack bot baseline
Contributions:2 PRs, 53 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
slack-bot
carbonfive/active_column
Dec 2010 - Oct 2012
ActiveColumn is a data management framework for Cassandra. It includes data migrations similar to ActiveRecord, and a data mapping framework for "time line" modeled data.
Contributions:116 commits in 1 year 11 months
activerecordcassandradata-migration
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