Michael Christian

Michael Christian is a seasoned professional in the field of Hybrid Cloud as a Service with extensive experience in product management and engineering leadership.

Michael's educational background includes a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University and completion of the Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELP²) at UC Berkeley's Fung Institute.

Having held key positions in top tech companies, Michael has served as Vice President, Product Owner for Fusion Apps, Cloud at Customer at Oracle, Vice President of Customer Experience in Infrastructure Engineering, and Vice President of Site Reliability Engineering at Salesforce.

Michael has also shared his expertise as a Plenum Speaker at Velocity Conf and held the role of Chief Paranoid, CISO at Yahoo! Inc., overseeing operations tooling, infrastructure resiliency, business continuity planning, abuse & DDOS mitigation, and high availability architecture.

His diverse experience spans from working on Set Top Application Architecture at Thirdspace Living, Ltd., to Strategic Video Services at Oracle.

Michael's professional journey exemplifies strong leadership, technical acumen, and a deep understanding of cloud technologies and infrastructure management.