Mike Saparov

• Advisor to very exciting startups: W&B, Tecton, Snorkel AI, Sourcegraph, Slab • VP of Engineering at Tecton • VP of Engineering at Red Hat • VP of Engineering at CoreOS • Senior Director of Engineering for Cloud Products at MuleSoft • Founder/CEO of Topster (Klout for local businesses) • Cofounded Q.branch (IT services provider for Fortune 5 company) • Ran software development at Openlane (acquired for $250M) • Did Ph.D. research at Stanford on massively parallel data processing • Successfully raised money from investors • Built teams and solutions from scratch • Oversaw team growth from a few people into a large engineering organization spread between multiple locations and time zones • Managed professional services, sold projects to large enterprise clients, ran successful SEO/SEM campaigns • Created an iPad app that reached #1 in China and #2-5 across Western Europe and US (as a side project)