Mike Devich
SVP, Engineering @iHeartMedia
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WORK HISTORY
SVP, Engineering @iHeartMedia
Athens, GA, US
Hired to elevate engineering leadership maturity and scale backend organizations; promoted from VP to SVP while expanding oversight to multiple backend engineering teams owning critical digital infrastructure.• Lead teams responsible for Kubernetes-based PaaS, 40+ core applications/services, music & podcast ingestion, and APIs powering all consumer clients across mobile, web, automotive, and internal systems.• Drive technology strategy in partnership with Product and Engineering leadership, including leading AI strategy and adoption initiatives across the digital organization.• Develop and mentor engineering managers and emerging leaders; enhance team performance, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration.• Oversee vendor strategy and reliability tooling (MongoDB Atlas, Fastly, New Relic, PagerDuty), enterprise observability, and 24/7 operational readiness.• Support initiatives across security, privacy, and fraud-prevention, including safeguarding streaming authenticity and data integrity.• Guided teams that have earned multiple patents in architecture and application design.• Led platform modernization and incident-reduction programs that cut outages by 90%, significantly improving system reliability, brand protection, and on-call load for engineering and SRE teams.
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ABOUT MIKE DEVICH
Senior engineering executive with 20+ years of experience leading organizations up to 100+, transforming engineering culture, driving reliability, executing platform migrations, and delivering large-scale digital products. Known for reducing operational incidents by over 90%, scaling engineering teams, and leading high-visibility platform modernization efforts across media, SaaS, and enterprise environments.
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