Mike Curtis

VP of Engineering Cloud

Vercel

Apr 2024 - Current (2 years 6 months)

Overseeing Vercel's cloud.
Edge Networking, Compute, CI/CD, Observability, Platform Engineering, and AI SDKs/Infrastructure.

Senior Director, Core Infrastructure

Google

Jun 2016 - Apr 2024 (7 years 11 months)

Led development experience for first-party backends (Google's largest software segment; ~60k developers):
• Created Google's Server Platform offerings (codenames: Boq and Pod), providing end-to-end SDLC experience. Migrated 60% of Google's 25yr-old software repository to this stack (Bn lines of code), across all properties (Search, YouTube, GCP, Workspace, etc)
• Drove standard software solutions company-wide for CI/CD, integration testing, observability, debugging, feature flags / experimentation, traffic management, etc
• Transformed Google engineering culture by normalizing previously rejected industry practices: continuous deployments, framework-driven development, microservice architectures
• Influenced partner org

Principal Software Engineer, Site Reliability, Google+

Google

Jul 2010 - May 2016 (5 years 11 months)

Founding and lead SRE for Google+
• Oversaw every major Google+ feature launch and product integration
• Introduced continuous software releases -- a first for any major Google property -- as a strategic lever against competing social networks. Led technical solutions and process improvements across Dev, SRE, QA, RelEng
• Drove rearchitecture of legacy infrastructure (Gmail, Google Groups, Reader, etc) into microservice-oriented social platform
• Designed and oversaw development of generalized solutions for graceful degradation, request prioritization, deadline propagation, load shedding, cost reporting, dependency management, regression detection, etc

Software Engineering Tech Lead, Site Reliability, Gmail

Google

Jul 2005 - Jun 2010 (5 years)

Lead SRE during early days of Gmail post-launch:
• Engineering lead for team of 6 engineers
• 24x7 incident response and complex debugging, including numerous media headline events
• Led efforts to lift Gmail to 99.99% uptime
• Drove strategic initiative to reduce software release time from monthly to 2x/week
• Oversaw testing and deployment for major architectural transitions: multi-homing, storage migrations, etc
• Lead developer for Gmail's monitoring software
• Performed fleet optimizations saving $XXM/yr

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