Mike Gardiner
VP of Engineering | CTO | Scaling High-Growth SaaS Platforms | AI Transformation & Cloud Strategy | Building Global Engineering Cultures | DevSecOps Leadership
- Role
- Director of Engineering at Vivint
- Location
- Lehi, UT, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Mike Gardiner
I’m a technology executive who builds high-velocity, AI-enabled engineering organizations that ship faster, scale globally, and deliver measurable business impact.Over my career, I’ve:* Scaled engineering teams 7x while maintaining an 85+ eNPS high-trust culture.* Cut cloud spend 25–45% while improving delivery speed and system reliability.* Led multiple DevOps and platform transformations, improving DORA metrics by 50%+ and accelerating product launches.* Brought AI, LLMs, and AR into production products, driving customer adoption and revenue growth.I operate at the intersection of strategy, technology, and culture — aligning engineering investments to corporate growth, modernizing platforms, and ensuring teams deliver at startup speed with enterprise scale. Whether advising the board, leading a turnaround, or scaling for hypergrowth, I focus on results that move the business forward. You can reach me on LinkedIn or via email at m••••••••@gmail.com.
Experience
Director of Engineering
Mar 2024 — Present · Lehi, UT, US
Driving the Agentic SDLC as a company-wide, executive-sponsored transformation by embedding autonomous AI agents across all lifecycle phases to maximize delivery velocity, quality, and efficiency.• Partnered with product and executive leadership to define a 3-year technology and platform roadmap, aligning engineering investments with revenue growth, customer experience, and market expansion goals.• Fostered a culture of technical excellence and innovation through architectural governance, engineering leadership development, and disciplined execution across platform initiatives.• Led legacy modernization via AI-first strategy on Azure using Azure DevOps and.NET, increasing system efficiency by 25% and reducing operational cost by 15%.• Directed DevOps transformation, resulting in a 50% improvement in DORA metrics and driving shared performance KPIs across the organization.
Education
Weber State University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Skills
- Software Architectural Design
- C#
- Oop
- Multithreading
- Junit
- Tomcat
- Agile Methodologies
- Mobile Applications
- Management
- Threads
- Cloud Computing
- Saltstack
- Web Services
- C++
- Swift
- Osgi
- Javascript
- Uml
- Ios Development
- Testng
- Jsp
- C
- Apache Spark
- Leadership
- Software Engineering
- Apache
- Soa
- Html
- Git
- Xml
- Rest
- Java
- Spring
- Team Leadership
- Software Development
- Servlets
- Scrum
- Sql
- Linux
- Hibernate
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