Mike has served in numerous technical roles such as CTO, Chief Architect, and VP positions with over 30 years of experience in software development and architecture. A pioneer in cloud computing, Mike led a team that built the world's first high-speed transaction network in Amazon's public cloud and won the 2010 AWS Global Startup Challenge and is ranked as one of the Top 100 Cloud Experts and Influencers. Mike is the author of "Architecting the Cloud: Design Decisions for Cloud Computing Service Models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)".