Damien M.

VP of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States22 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

Built and scaled teams to 75 across multiple regions.
Drove growth from seed to Series B funding.
Strong advocate for healthy, empowered teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS leader with a strong focus on engineering management and team optimization.

Contact

d.michau@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

ManagementLeadershipEngineering ManagementAgile MethodologiesDevops

Other Skills

BashBuild AutomationC#Career ManagementCloud ComputingDell PowerEdge ServersDigital MarketingGitGraphiteHP Insight ManagerHP ProliantHadoopJIRAJavaKubernetes

About

I am a strong advocate for healthy, empowered teams with a clear mission. I am skilled in recruiting, designing, and scaling teams to meet the ever-changing needs of the business. I am always looking for ways to improve and optimize our processes, systems, and performance. I am a motivated self-starter who always seeks ways to challenge the status quo. I am a strong communicator and have a proven ability to build relationships with people from all walks of life. I am driven by the vision of creating organizations that solve real problems and create value for our customers and stakeholders.

Experience

22 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 11 mos

Current Experience

Hubble network

VP of Engineering

Oct 2025 – Present · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Devzero

Advisor

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Endor labs

Head of Engineering, VP Engineering

Feb 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

Endor Labs is the AppSec platform for the software development revolution
Built and scaled the Engineering, IT, Security and Compliance organization to 75 people across the US, Europe, and India, achieving exceptionally low attrition and driving growth from seed to Series B.
Created the core frameworks for hiring, processes, roadmaps, and execution, building a highly predictable, fast-moving, and high-quality organization with the right balance of processes.
Worked closely with Product, Design, and GTM to align strategy, accelerate delivery, and maximize customer impact.

ManagementLeadershipAgile MethodologiesEngineering Management

Devnetwork

Advisory Board Member

Jun 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · United States

Devops Advisory Board

Agile MethodologiesDevOps

Automox

2 roles

Senior Director of Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering

Nov 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Problem SolvingKubernetesTeamworkAgile MethodologiesEngineering ManagementDevOps

Director of Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering

Oct 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Developer Experience and Infrastructure / Developer Platform / Platform Engineering
SRE: Creation of a developer-first platform, self-service
Quality Engineering: Evangelization of Quality/Testing best practices and providing a quality score to developers
Internal Tools: Development of internal tools to facilitate work across orgs
Technical Program Management: Creation of TPM org to ensure alignment across orgs, evangelization of Agile practices and OKR framework.
Data Platform and Analytics

Problem SolvingKubernetesTeamworkAgile MethodologiesEngineering ManagementDevOps

Plato

Mentor

Oct 2021 – May 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Agile MethodologiesEngineering ManagementDevOps

Wework

2 roles

Head of Developer Platform, Director of Engineering

May 2020 – Sep 2020 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Developer platform org
SRE
Storage
Observability
Developer Experience
Developer Tools

Problem SolvingKubernetesTeamworkAgile MethodologiesEngineering ManagementDevOps

Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Platform / Infrastructure / SRE

Sep 2019 – May 2020 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

As part of the Developer Platform organization, my role was to manage a set of teams, SREs and Storage, focused on building a scalable, multi-cloud, secure and easy to use Kubernetes-backed platform for all 1200+ engineers at WeWork.

Problem SolvingKubernetesTeamworkAgile MethodologiesEngineering ManagementDevOps

Criteo

5 roles

Datacenter, Infrastructure & Network / Staff DevOps Engineer

May 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

Datacenter, Infrastructure & Network / US Infrastructure / Staff DevOps Engineer
Contributed to alternative data-center network software and hardware (routers, optics) project
Scoring/comparison/selection of alternative solutions
Establishing new vendor relationships, discussing pricing
Pro-active contributor to department road-map and long-term vision
Developed soft skills required to work at intersection of many disciplines
Active participant and contributor to the datacenter selection committee. Design and implementation of tooling to collect and analyze data to support the selection of the location. Audit of candidates.
Support of the hosting team, designing and implementing new tools, adding automation to the processes in place. Also local support for US projects ( FIR Rampup, vendor selection and management, procurement )
(Bash, Python, SONiC, Hardware, Network, Supply Chain, JIRA)

Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Jan 2014 – May 2018 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Managing Windows / Linux / Operational / Automation / Monitoring / Reporting / Internal tools teams

Engineering Manager

Sep 2013 – Jan 2014 · 4 mos

Managing operational / monitoring / reporting / internal tools teams

Infrastructure Engineer / Monitoring Lead

Promoted

Sep 2008 – Sep 2013 · 5 yrs

· Tooling development to automate incident response (Python, Bash, Nagios/Centreon)
· Server hardware maintenance planning and follow-up (with contractors)
· Level 1 on call 24/7