# Michael Leikam > Senior Technology Leader Location: Palo Alto, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelleikam I build technology for industries spanning ecommerce, media, publishing, manufacturing and education. My roles have included hands-on development, leadership, and product functions. I’ve launched and grown: * scalable, high-performance, feature-rich, turnkey platforms and marketplaces * large-scale, enterprise systems and micro-sites that are targeted and tested * internally facing toolsets that boost productivity and accelerate timelines At startups at various stages to established businesses, I love to draw diverse teams together from programmers, designers, merchandizing, account managers, marketers to deliver value. ## Work Experience ### Staff Engineer @ Primer.ai Jan 2020 – Present Leading frontend engineering—strategy, architecture, hiring—as well as doing hands on coding. We’re developing both tools for data scientists and the framework for others to understand AI-generated insights. ### Principal Engineer @ Wonolo Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Leading the front-end development team (6 members) through a migration to react/redux and GraphQL • Driving a back-end migration from monolith to CI/CD, microservices • Technical architecture, resource allocation, hiring & team building, process thinking ### Principal Engineer @ Symphony Commerce Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area * Finding problems and formulating solutions in highly ambiguous and fluid situations. * Driving consolidation and transparency among front-end integrations and node.js apps; including architecture, extensibility, business sustainability, and mentoring. * Evangelizing for and developing machine learning/AI services within the ecommerce space. ### Startup Consultant @ Self Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 Providing product advice to founder clients pre-funding. Services include product refinement, MPV assessments, team building, marketing strategy, developer recruitment, brainstorming, go-to-market strategy, vendor/contractor selection. ### Director of Web Development @ Strategic Partners, Inc. Jan 2007 – Jan 2014 Owner of all B2C e-Commerce and marketing platforms hosting hundreds of sites with millions in revenue. Included design, features, technical aspects. * Scaled our technology to accommodate 1000%+ growth in transactions while improving cart size by 20% and conversion rates by 30%. * Created key performance indicators and data analytics to inform strategic planning and decision-making processes. * Integrated metric-driven improvements through SEO, performance analytics, A/B testing, KPI tracking * Managed executive sponsorship and buy-in from teams across the company. * Acted as liaison and expert for all consumer digital marketing needs. ### Chief Technology Officer (CTO) @ VenueGurus.com Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Co-founder of a start-up business offering a Yelp-like ratings and reviews system focusing on the concert and sports venues market. * Managed all key technical business functions from recruiting, interviewing, and hiring to coding, architecture development, and database design to partner selection, systems integration and hosting. * Worked in an agile environment to identify a minimum viable product through rapid prototyping and evolutionary design. ### Senior Technical Producer @ California State University, Long Beach Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 * Coordinated daily operations of a full-service web agency (Web Development Center) for the university. * Created and maintained a broad range of technical systems from micro-sites to mission-critical enterprise platforms. * Improved forecasting and analytical capabilities by developing high-quality monitoring tools. * Served as the Co-Chair of the Web Development Committee, an organization for leveraging the technical knowledge, expertise, and intellectual capital of 24 campus development teams. ### VP of Product Development @ Muzility LLC Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 Spearheaded a complete rebuild of an online video sharing website similar to YouTube. Improved usability, scalability, maintainability by incorporating a CMS and redesigning the front-end interface to improve company’s market positioning. ### Producer @ Yahoo Jan 1997 – Jan 2001 I led product strategy planning and established the development roadmap for product documentation and support. * Developed a revolutionary method of publishing internally-generated content. * Collaborated with worldwide product groups across 24 markets to drive content localization. * Transformed product documentation from an ad hoc, labor-intensive cost center into a structured, streamlined, globally-scalable source of business insight. ## Education ### MA in Philosophy Stanford University ### BA in Anthropology, Philosophy University of California, Santa Cruz ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/leikam --- Source: https://flows.cv/michaelleikam JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/michaelleikam/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12