mike d. kail

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States28 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 30 years of technology executive leadership experience.
  • Expert in cloud architecture and big data solutions.
  • Proven track record in enhancing application performance.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Big Data expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ArchitecturePerformance TuningBig Data

Other Skills

Application Policy ManagementI/O AccelerationCustomer IntelligenceData EnrichmentHadoopMongoDBVirtualizationArchitectureClusteringUnixHigh AvailabilityVMwareCloud ComputingStorageSAN

About

30 years of Technology Executive Leadership Experience Specialties: Organizational Health, Cloud Architecture, Security, Unix System/Network Architecture, SaaS/Cloud deployments, Big Data, Monitoring/Alerting, SQL/NoSQL, Virtualization, Performance Tuning/Scalability

Experience

28 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
11 yrs
Current Experience

Icustomer

Technical Advisor

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Remote

Corvic ai

Angel Investor

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

Vishanti systems

2 roles

Strategic Advisor

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Technical Advisor

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Tessell

Strategic Advisor

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

Primaryio

2 roles

CTO

Promoted

Apr 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Technical Advisor

Dec 2015Present · 10 yrs 6 mos

  • PrimaryIO is a start-up based in Silicon Valley that develops software solutions to dramatically increase application performance in the most cost effective and least disruptive way imaginable.
  • Big data, web and database applications are stressing the limits of traditional IT architectures because storage performance has not kept pace with compute capabilities. Eliminating this bottleneck has become a top priority for IT organizations globally. PrimaryIO provides software solutions that leverage application policy based management to dramatically increase application performance. Our software dynamically accelerates primary data and I/O for business critical workloads by efficiently utilizing server-side flash, while at the same time avoiding costly server and storage upgrades.

Git1k

Founding Member - Lead

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Exclusive community of IT & technology leaders supporting disruptive startups

Cloudremedy

Strategic Advisor

Aug 2020Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos · New York, United States

Pulse

Strategic Advisor

Mar 2020Present · 6 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Palo alto strategy group

Executive Technologist

Nov 2018Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Everest

CTO

Aug 2018Aug 2020 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Dataxylo

Technical Advisor / Investor

Aug 2016Present · 9 yrs 10 mos · Greater Boston

  • DataXylo, with its patent pending self-service Cognitive Customer Intelligence (CIP) platform, helps omni-channel marketing operations to continuously collect, combine & enrich customer data in a non-linear way. Data sources include organizational data silos as well as external sources. Dynamic segmentation and just-in-time insights drive revenue maximization.
  • DataXylo is an MIT spin-out who currently has several Fortune 500 clients in the Retail and High-Tech sectors.

Immerss

Strategic Advisor / Investor

Jan 2016Present · 10 yrs 5 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

  • A Virtual Marketplace for Live Interactive Experiences

Virtual power systems

Technical Advisor

Oct 2015Present · 10 yrs 8 mos · Santa Clara

  • Virtual Power Systems, Inc. (VPS) is transforming how data centers provision, manage, and utilize power capacity. We share a passion for solving hard problems with cutting edge technology, data science and design. Our mission is to enable data center operators to double power and server utilization, slash costs, and improve reliability.

Cybric

CTO / Co-Founder

Oct 2015May 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Boston, Massachusetts

  • Continuous Security Delivery Fabric

Egnyte

Technical Advisor

Jun 2015Present · 11 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Technical Advisory Board Member

Zimperium

Technical Advisor

Jun 2015Aug 2022 · 7 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Mobile Security

Yahoo

CIO & SVP of Infrastructure

Aug 2014Jun 2015 · 10 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

Nod.ai

Series Seed Investor

Jun 2013Oct 2023 · 10 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Invested in the Series Seed round of nod.ai and congrats to the team on a successful exit to AMD

Netflix

2 roles

VP of IT Operations

Oct 2011Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Los Gatos, CA

  • Responsible for an organization of 125+ employees that includes:
  • Client Technology Services
  • Enterprise Technology Solutions
  • Unix Systems/Storage
  • Network Engineering
  • Telco/VOIP/Videoconferencing
  • Database Architects
  • Enterprise Services Tools
  • HR/IS team
  • Financial Applications team
  • AdTech
  • Enterprise Application Development

Director of Employee Technology

Jun 2011Oct 2011 · 4 mos · Los Gatos, CA

Attensity

VP of IT Operations

Aug 2009Jun 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Responsible for the Americas Data Center Operations team, including
  • managing a Hadoop cluster, HBase, MongoDB, and various other big data components.
  • Also responsible for the integration of the Americas and EMEA IT teams and coordinating joint and Geo specific projects

Chumby industries

Director of SaaS Ops/IT

Jul 2007Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Networkcar.com

Manager of Unix System Infrastructure

Oct 2005Jul 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos

Xifin, inc

Senior Unix System/Network Architect

Jul 2004Oct 2005 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • unix system architect

Nexprise.com

Senior Unix System/Network Architect

Jan 2002Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

Crosscommerce.com

Senior Unix System/Network Architect

Jan 2000Jan 2001 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Team Lead, Overall architect

First virtual holdings

Unix System Architect

Jan 1995Jan 1998 · 3 yrs

Control data corporation

EP/IX System Administrator

Jan 1991Jan 1992 · 1 yr · Arden Hills, MN

Education

Iowa State University

B.S. — computer science

Jan 1987Jan 1991

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