Martin Mao

CEO

Seattle, Washington, United States17 yrs 7 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

Palo alto networks

SVP, GM of Observability

Jan 2026Present · 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Leading the Observability business at Palo Alto Networks

Chronosphere

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

May 2019Present · 6 yrs 10 mos · 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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