Summary
Mitch Crane is a seasoned software engineering manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with 15 years of experience building high-performance storage, virtualization, and cloud-native systems. He blends hands-on C and Java systems coding with people leadership, having scaled engineering teams and shipped complex analytics and microservice architectures at Cloudtenna and productizing low-latency storage at Fusion-io and NetApp. At Cloudtenna he split time between backend coding, observability-driven operations, and company strategy—translating customer and OEM needs into roadmaps—skills he now applies at Google. Mitch’s background includes founding a VDI startup and running data center and multi-cloud deployments, giving him uncommon operational depth for a manager. He’s known for turning hard systems problems into reliable production solutions and for mentoring engineers to deliver software that “just works.”
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley