Mike Shaver

VP, Engineering

Tailscale

Jul 2026 - Current (3 months)

Helping build the internet we should have had all along.

Member Board of Directors

Ladybird Browser Initiative

Oct 2024 - Current (2 years)

I proudly advise and help govern the non-profit foundation that supports the development of the independent Ladybird browser.

Advisor

Staircase Ventures

Apr 2023 - Current (3 years 6 months)

I help evaluate companies for Staircase's portfolio, and coach the entrepreneurs who are lucky enough to have Janet invest in them.

Vice President of Engineering

Fastly

Mar 2025 - Jun 2026 (1 year 4 months)

Managing engineering for Fastly's security products, Compute@Edge, and internal developer platform. Generally meddling.

Funemployed & Consulting & Advising

Selfemployed

Jun 2024 - Mar 2025 (10 months)

Spent the summer with my family and undertook a patient and leisurely search for The Next Thing.

Also did some consulting:
- pre-funding food-tech startup, advised their CTO and CEO on planning, technical strategy, hiring approach
- newly-funded, long-lived industry event planning software company, advising on architecture, leadership development, candidate evaluation

Distinguished Engineer

Shopify

Mar 2022 - Jun 2024 (2 years 4 months)

Directed technical strategy and project direction for Shopify's core technology. Leader, architect, coach, debugger, mentor, strategist.

VP of Engineering

Very Good Security

Apr 2021 - Dec 2021 (9 months)

Helping build a world-class software team to protect the world's sensitive data. Managing Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure for a global team.

CTO

integrateai

Nov 2018 - Apr 2021 (2 years 6 months)

Managed engineering and science for privacy-focused AI startup.

Founder

ScaleDriver

Sep 2016 - Mar 2021 (4 years 7 months)

Accelerating innovation, for real.

Partner

Real Ventures

Sep 2016 - Jul 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Led and supported multiple investments in seed and series A companies, including serving on boards and advising founders of portfolio companies. One of my investments is a unicorn now! Also participated in fundraising with LPs.

Director, Engineering

Facebook

Nov 2011 - Jul 2016 (4 years 9 months)

Mobile, VR, security, touch of AI. Diversity, recruiting, mentorship.

Managed engineering strategy for Facebook’s transition from web-focused to mobile-first company.

VP, Technical Strategy

Mozilla Corporation

May 2011 - Sep 2011 (5 months)

Vice President, Engineering

Mozilla Corporation

Jul 2008 - May 2011 (2 years 11 months)

Manage and guide web's finest Engineering organization, including Platform, QA, Firefox, Security and Localization groups.

Also co-wrote Mozilla's first JIT, TraceMonkey.

Chief Evangelist

Mozilla Corporation

Sep 2007 - Aug 2008 (1 year)

Director, Ecosystem Development

Mozilla Corporation

Mar 2006 - Sep 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Manage and oversee developer and ISV relations. Responsible for strategy and execution of extensions programmes, partner assistance and recruitment, and developer community programmes. Includes high-influence participation in product design and planning, with special focus on extensibility and developer-attractiveness of products and platforms.

Technology Strategist

Mozilla Corporation

Jul 2005 - Mar 2006 (9 months)

I oversee the development of the Mozilla project's technology strategy, and the evolution of its platform for application development and delivery. I also participate actively in the management and direction of the organization and project in general.

Open Desktop Lead

Oracle

May 2004 - Jul 2005 (1 year 3 months)

Initiated the Lightning project to integrate calendaring support into Thunderbird, and led a small team of developers at Oracle to produce the first versions. Also active in the CALDAV standardization effort.

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Principal Engineer

Cluster File Systems

Jul 2002 - May 2004 (1 year 11 months)

Worked on the Lustre filesystem (lustre.org), with special focus on metadata recovery and failover. Deep involvement in relationships with key customers and partners. Some organizational management and development.

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Independent Contractor/Consultant

Mar 2001 - Jun 2002 (1 year 4 months)

Consulting for AOL/Netscape, OEOne, others on mostly-Mozilla development. Also played a lot of video games, truth be told.

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Chief Software Officer

Zero Knowledge Systems

Feb 2000 - Feb 2001 (1 year 1 month)

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Evangelist

mozillaorg

Jan 1998 - Jan 2000 (2 years 1 month)

Member of Technical Staff

Netscape Communications

Oct 1997 - Jan 2000 (2 years 4 months)

Worked on JavaScript engine (internals development and embedding consultation).

Co-founded Mozilla project for release and open-source management of Netscape Communicator source code. Licensing, technical architecture, community/developer relations, backup sysadminry, lots of policy wonking.

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Technical Specialist/Chief Technology Officer

Ingenia Communications Corp

Feb 1993 - Oct 1997 (4 years 9 months)

Executive management, software developer, development lead, webmaster, sysadmin, equipment carrier, bottle washer.

You know how it is with startups.

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