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Mike Curtis
VP of Engineering
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Location: San Francisco, California, United StatesApprox. Years of Experience: 20
Mike Curtis's Current Workplace
Vercel
Company Size
301-1000
Amount Raised
$313.0M
Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration. \n\nBy providing the toolkit frontend teams love and delivering global edge infrastructure, Vercel unlocks developer potential and enables you to go from idea to global application in seconds. Vercel are the creators and maintainers of Next.js —the React framework for production. \n\nNext.js\n- 3.1M downloads per week\n- 500K+ Frontend developers and designers use Next.js\n- 30% of the Cloud 100 build with Vercel and Next.js\n\nCompanies, teams, and individual developers using Vercel benefit from a fully-managed, highly-optimized experience that enables customers like Under Armour, Nintendo, The Washington Post, and Zapier to build delightful user experiences.\n\nWe are backed by GGV Capital, Accel, Bedrock Capital, CRV, and more. We are headquartered in San Francisco.
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Notable Investors
Accel, Tiger Global Management, GV, 8VC, CRV
Enterprise
Developer Tools
Web Development
Developer Platform
Cloud Infrastructure
Experience
VP of Engineering
Vercel
Apr 2024 - Present
• 1 yr 2 mos
Overseeing Vercel's frontend cloud. Edge Networking, Compute, CI/CD, and Platform Engineering.
Google
Jul 2005 - Apr 2024
Senior Director, Core Infrastructure
Jun 2016 - Apr 2024
• 7 yrs 11 mos
Led development experience for first-party backends (Google's largest software segment; ~60k developers): • Created Google's Server Platform offerings (codenames: Boq and Pod), providing end-to-end SDLC experience. Migrated 60% of Google's 25yr-old software repository to this stack (Bn lines of code), across all properties (Search, YouTube, GCP, Workspace, etc) • Drove standard software solutions company-wide for CI/CD, integration testing, observability, debugging, feature flags / experimentation, traffic management, etc • Transformed Google engineering culture by normalizing previously rejected industry practices: continuous deployments, framework-driven development, microservice architectures • Influenced partner organizations (SRE, EngProd, SecEng) to pivot operating models around frameworks and automation (e.g. SRE reducing footprint to < 5% SRE:Dev ratio) • Oversaw organizations driving fleetwide optimization efforts of $XXXM/yr • Grew and evolved 250 person engineering organization. Strategic portfolio management, team refactoring, leadership and career development. Bootstrapped product management, program management, developer relations, go to market functions
Principal Software Engineer, Site Reliability, Google+
Jul 2010 - May 2016
• 5 yrs 11 mos
Founding and lead SRE for Google+ • Oversaw every major Google+ feature launch and product integration • Introduced continuous software releases -- a first for any major Google property -- as a strategic lever against competing social networks. Led technical solutions and process improvements across Dev, SRE, QA, RelEng • Drove rearchitecture of legacy infrastructure (Gmail, Google Groups, Reader, etc) into microservice-oriented social platform • Designed and oversaw development of generalized solutions for graceful degradation, request prioritization, deadline propagation, load shedding, cost reporting, dependency management, regression detection, etc
Software Engineering Tech Lead, Site Reliability, Gmail
Jul 2005 - Jun 2010
• 5 yrs
Lead SRE during early days of Gmail post-launch: • Engineering lead for team of 6 engineers • 24x7 incident response and complex debugging, including numerous media headline events • Led efforts to lift Gmail to 99.99% uptime • Drove strategic initiative to reduce software release time from monthly to 2x/week • Oversaw testing and deployment for major architectural transitions: multi-homing, storage migrations, etc • Lead developer for Gmail's monitoring software • Performed fleet optimizations saving $XXM/yr
Education
  • 2001 - 2005
    Columbia UniversityComputer Science