# Mike Wells

> Principal Engineer at Databricks

Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mikewells

Specialties: Shipping products, scaling services, building teams.
C++, Java, Ocaml, Scala, functional programming. Android, Amazon Web Services, Mysql, Riak.

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Leading teams to empower the admin to adopt, deploy, administer, and use Databricks easily.

### Principal Engineer | Core Serving @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View
Build and run infrastructure to serve the Knowledge Graph, a critical backend for Google flagship products that serve 1B+ users including Search, YouTube, Assistant, and Shopping.

### Principal Engineer | Google Payments @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View
Rebuild the payments platform at Google.  I led teams focused on Payment Orchestration, Storage, and Data Warehousing.

### Co-Founder @ Mr. Number
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, CA
CTO and co-founder of Mr. Number.  Get more calls when you want them and no calls when you don't.

### Co-Founder @ Skydeck
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | San Mateo, CA
Skydeck put your cell phone online: see and respond to all your calls, texts, and voicemails on the web.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006
Worked on blog search and sentiment analysis in NYC.

### Director of Engineering @ Vindigo
Jan 2000 – Jan 2005
Built apps for BREW, J2ME, Palm, and Pocket PC.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 1995 – Jan 2000 | Mountain View, CA
Quicken for Windows


## Education
### BS in Biology, Computer Science
Tulane University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mwells
- Portfolio: http://databricks.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-12