Mike Bell

CEO

San Jose, California, United States18 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led large engineering teams at PayPal.
Delivered innovative user interfaces at Netflix.
Expert in data-driven multivariate testing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Entertainment-focused product engineering leader.

Contact

mbell410@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

A/B TestingCSSCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer ExperienceEngineering LeadershipEngineering ManagementFront-End DevelopmentHTML 5JSONJavaJavaScriptManaging ManagersSDK developmentSoftware DevelopmentTeam Culture

About

I’m a people-focused product engineering leader with 8+ years of management experience. The majority of my career has been working on and leading teams of UX-focused engineers. I’ve delivered large-scale re-architectures that fundamentally changed how products were built and deployed, as well as innovative user-interfaces that have shifted the TV viewing experience. As a people leader, my focus is on empowering teams and individuals with the context necessary to independently make the bets decisions for themselves and the company. I’m a firm believer in the “highly aligned, loosely coupled” approach to teams. As an engineer, I love building experiences used by millions of people. I get particularly excited about innovation and iteration through data-driven multivariate testing. I have extensive software development experience, primarily centered around JavaScript and other web technologies.

Experience

Postman

Head of Client Platform

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Paypal

3 roles

Senior Director Of Engineering, Checkout

Promoted

Nov 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Led 80+ person engineering organization responsible for the delivery of PayPal Checkout
experiences used by 10s of millions of people daily, including new buyer acquisition and sign-up
and returning member. Spearheaded major re-architecture of our web-based experiences with a
focus on speed of delivery and developer productivity as well as end-user latency. Partnered
cross-functionally with PayPal Credit organization on the fast, and successful launch of PayPal’s
buy now, pay later product line. Focused on team growth and mentorship, organized teams to
be able to react quickly to changing product direction and priorities.

Director, Checkout Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

Senior Engineering Manager, Checkout

Jun 2016 – Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Netflix

2 roles

User Experience Prototyper

Aug 2013 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

As part of the Netflix design team I built functional prototype UIs as early proofs of concept and
for use in qualitative research with customers and participated in early brainstorming and
ideation of new concepts. Leveraged experience working with the Netflix API to implement a
system to allow the prototyping team to provide customized home screens to users
participating in qualitative studies.

Senior User Interface Engineer

Aug 2010 – Aug 2013 · 3 yrs

As a UI engineer, I worked on the TV streaming interface for game consoles, TVs, and Blu-ray
players. Helped design and build a graph-based API, Falcor. Implemented many A/B tests,
including early attempts at incorporating video into the browsing experience.

Comcast

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2007 – Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Developed EBIF renderer for set top cable boxes in Java and C++ to enable interactive
applications to be delivered alongside TV content. Heavily optimized code to run on memory
and CPU constrained systems