Michel Tu

Software Engineer

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands13 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in privacy compliance and security infrastructure.
Led large teams and initiatives at Google and Databricks.
Proven track record in scaling complex systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong capabilities in privacy compliance and infrastructure management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Privacy PoliciesSoftware DevelopmentComplianceInfrastructure ManagementPrivacy ComplianceWeb DevelopmentNode.js

Other Skills

SecurityProject ManagementYouTube AdsTeam LeadershipDocumentation SystemsPythonJavaAndroidHTMLCSSJavascriptJqueryPHPSQLMySQL

About

Senior staff engineer at Databricks on Trust & Safety: I help Databricks mature its engineering systems/processes/policies to be compliant with privacy regulations/certifications (GDPR, FedRamp, PCI etc.) and meet customer expectations. My interests lie in landscapes governed by complex, nuanced and strong requirements (e.g. privacy, policies, etc.) and building an infrastructure that - Scales for more traffic, larger teams and more complex products - Is resilient to time (employee churn, evolving requirements etc.) - Significantly help the business

Experience

13 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Databricks

2 roles

Senior Staff Engineer

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Software engineer in the Trust and Safety org, part of the Trust Foundation team.
I lead multiple infra efforts around privacy/compliance/security (e.g. data residency, data labeling etc.) and help the whole Databricks engineering org mature in regards to privacy/compliance/security.

Privacy PoliciesComplianceSecuritySoftware DevelopmentProject Management

Senior Staff Engineer

Feb 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Trust and Safety at Databricks

Google

Software Engineer

Oct 2014 – Feb 2022 · 7 yrs 4 mos · Mountain View

Tech Lead Manager (TLM) on YouTube Ads (Google) with broad ownership/responsibilities:
All the publisher infrastructure (that decides whether we can serve ads, what features can be used and where/when to show them). All YouTube Ads are served by this infrastructure.
Multiple large end to end products/features (e.g. all privacy for serving, policies and external regulations).
Large initiatives around inventory understanding, scaling the system for not only a growing diverse YouTube Ads business but also a growing org.
Directly generated +XB$ revenue for the past 3 years
Lead a team with 25 headcount and influence +100 engineers across teams/orgs.

YouTube AdsInfrastructure ManagementPrivacy ComplianceTeam Leadership

Rethinkdb

Front End Engineer

May 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Mountain View

I have built the web interface of RethinkDB, with these interesting features
a data explorer with automatic suggestions
setting shards/replicas with a few clicks
I have also rewritten a few more things like our documentation system, work on Node.js integration etc.

Web DevelopmentNode.jsDocumentation Systems