Michael Kao
Software Development Manager, Buy with Prime, BSEE, MBA
- Role
- Software Development Manager at Amazon
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Michael Kao
An ally and advocate for increasing gender, cultural, and racial diversity in the tech industry. I believe that these challenges must be tackled directly and actively. These battles cannot be fought alone or in silence, and we need to empower the underserved and the traditionally excluded to succeed in a traditionally hostile industry. People deserve opportunity, equity and respect. If you need a mentor to help navigate your career or the industry, please reach out. I\'m a Software Dev Manager building the next generation of shopping experience with Amazon Buy with Prime. I specialize in risk identification and mitigation for foundational cloud technologies and influencing the architectural design of the networking that underpin the entire internet.
Experience
Software Development Manager
Oct 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Leading a cross-functional team of SDEs and TPMs to deliver a foundational CDK powering 270+ AWS services, which saved 40+ SDE years of development effort• Owns the vision, roadmap and implementation of Operational Excellence culture for SDE organization• Influencing VP level roadmap and architecture decisions by balancing business, customer and service team needs• Drive accountability across multiple Director level organizations for customer impacting events and operational health• Owns SVP level engineering goals
Education
Texas McCombs School of Business
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Organizational Development
2015 — 2017
University of Michigan
BSEE, VLSI, Computer Architecture
2004 — 2008
Skills
- Project Management
- Human Capital Management
- Perl
- Computer Architecture
- Microsoft Excel
- Software Development
- Analysis
- Verilog
- C#
- Vlsi
- Validation
- Functional Verification
- Debugging
- Agile Project Management
- Software Project Management
- Management
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Data Analysis
- Tfs
- Organizational Development
- Product Management
- Testing
- Change Management
- Leadership
- Organizational Change Agent
- Ms Project
- Scrum
- Microsoft Office
- Hardware Design
- Sprint Planning
- Program Management
- Strategy
- Sql
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
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