Michael Mao — VP of Engineering
Technology executive with 20+ years of experience specializing in large scale distributed systems, site reliability engineering, and secure edge network platforms. With a strong technical foundation from UC Berkeley and a progressive engineering career at Google, I have led backend system development, SRE operations, reliability programs, and global infrastructure scaling across mission-critical platforms serving billions of users At Cloudflare as VP, I directed strategy and execution for global edge networking, Zero Trust security, CDN, and WAF platforms, overseeing cross-regional engineering and product organizations. I drove architecture evolution, performance optimization, and enterprise grade security initiatives while partnering with major enterprise and cloud providers to expand Cloudflare’s global footprint I bring deep expertise in SRE leadership, distributed systems reliability, cloud networking, security engineering, and high performance infrastructure, with a proven track record of building resilient platforms and high performing technical teams
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned technology executive specializing in SaaS and infrastructure engineering.
Experience: 19 yrs 11 mos
Skills
- Sre Leadership
- Cloud Networking
- Security Engineering
- Distributed Systems
Career Highlights
- 20+ years in technology leadership roles.
- Expert in SRE and distributed systems.
- Proven track record in building resilient platforms.
Work Experience
Cloudflare
VP (4 yrs 9 mos)
SRE Manager (6 yrs 2 mos)
Senior SRE Engineer (6 yrs)
Engineer (3 yrs)
Education
Master's degree at University of California, Berkeley