Martin Mao

CEO

Seattle, Washington, United States17 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable observability platforms.
  • Strong leadership in high-impact engineering teams.
  • Passionate advocate for open source technologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on observability and distributed systems.

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Skills

Other Skills

C#Distributed SystemsJavaLinuxObject Oriented DesignProgrammingPythonSharePointSoftware DesignSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

About

A technologist with a history of solving problems at the largest scales in the world. Passionate about open source, the power of its communities and its ability to change industries.

Experience

17 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs
Current Experience

Palo alto networks

SVP, GM of Observability

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Leading the Observability business at Palo Alto Networks

Chronosphere

Co-Founder / CEO (acquired by Palo Alto Networks)

May 2019Present · 7 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

  • Chronosphere provides the world’s most scalable, reliable and cost efficient Observability platform.

Uber

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2017May 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Manager of the dev and SRE teams that created and ran Uber's metric stack - M3 - which we developed in open source (https://github.com/m3db).

Technical Lead

Apr 2015Jan 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Technical lead on Uber's metric stack - M3.

Amazon web services

Technical Lead

Oct 2013Apr 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Technical Lead on EC2 Windows.
  • Technical Lead on AWS Systems Manager.

Pure interactive technologies

Director

Jun 2013Dec 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Sydney, Australia

Woods bagot

Lead Software Developer

Nov 2012Jul 2013 · 8 mos · Sydney, Australia

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer

Apr 2011Nov 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Office 365
  • SharePoint 2013

Google

Software Engineer Intern

Dec 2010Mar 2011 · 3 mos

  • Google Docs

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer Intern

Dec 2009Mar 2010 · 3 mos

  • Office 2010

Call design

Software Engineer

May 2009Oct 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos

Genexis consulting

Software Developer

Sep 2007Nov 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos

Education

UNSW

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Software Engineering

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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