Michael Gionfriddo
CTO
Frisco,Colorado
Summary
Technology leader in product development execution, and contributor to pioneering innovations in Java, distributed systems, and payments. Career trajectory is hallmarked by the delivery of software platforms from inception to commercialization and by the leadership of world-class development teams across geographies and cultural boundaries. Respected for clarity of direction, management of complex relationships, and creating shareholder value through innovation.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
CTO
Tallied Technologies
03.2022 - Current
- Driving the technology vision and implementation of a platform to handle all aspects of a credit card program. This includes, underwriting, bi-temporal ledger, processor, rewards system, APIs, white-label web applications and data lake.
- The platform is event driven and serverless, providing a highly cost effective implementation while being scalable and performant.
- Built the entire engineering team and processes from the ground up.
- Leading our SOC 2 effort.
Chief Technology Officer
Pie Insurance
04.2019 - 12.2021
- Company Overview: Fastest growing Insuretech to $100M.
- Founded the engineering function. Grew Engineering from 10-110.
- Grew the software engineering, data engineering, and product teams, created a scalability development process, and established the quality function
- Extensively integrated analytics and machine learning into the Pie platform, allowing Pie to operate much more efficiently than traditional carriers
- Created digital partner strategy by introducing the first public API for commercial insurance
- Launched a market-leading predictive pricing model that gave Pie a robust competitive advantage
- Developed a machine learning model to assess a small business's identity and risk profile
- Created an insurance platform that automates 73% of all underwriting decisions and increases our efficiency by 18%
- I drove our API strategy that resulted in an additional $35M in annual premium
- Released several applications that allow our partners, customers, and employees to have a complete digital experience with Pie
- Created our policy management system using a serverless architecture, allowing Pie to launch new insurance products in weeks
Chief Strategy Officer
BurstIQ Analytics
07.2017 - 03.2019
- Company Overview: Apply Blockchain for Healthcare and Identity.
- The Burstchain is a proprietary blockchain that allows the owner’s sensitive information, such as identity and health records, to be controlled by the owner
- Helped establish the strategy of applying our proprietary blockchain and helped drive identity management and healthcare initiatives
- Assisted in creating the BiQ, a cryptocurrency that allows users to monetize their data sharing in the Burstchain
- Worked extensively with the government of Bermuda to leverage Burstchain to create a user-controlled digital identity wallet
- Collaborated with healthcare networks to apply Burstchain in applications where chain of custody was paramount
Chief Technology Officer
Blackhawk Network
04.2011 - 05.2017
- Company Overview: A publicly traded multinational prepaid payment network (NYSE: HAWK).
- $50M Capital Budget | 250-Person Technology Team | Digital & Cloud Transformation
- Directed product and technology strategy and built the engineering team
- Assisted in taking Blackhawk public and chartered with transforming the technology approach from a project-based IT mentality to an engineering-driven product-based approach
- Successfully built out technology that enabled revenue growth from $750M in 2011 to $1.8B in 2016
- Head of technology integration effort that has assimilated 13 different companies in 5 years — 300 developers and 17 platforms
- Transformed the global team into a focused delivery organization and installed Agile methodology with a monthly release cadence
- Catapulted delivery to average over 93% of user stories and delivered 75 projects across eight products.
- Slashed SEV 1 rate 87% YoY via an unwavering focus on quality and test automation
- Conceptualized, presented, and gained executive buy-in around the in-house decision to build the next-gen platform
- Received Visa Global Service Quality Award for consistently delivering the fastest vendor processing times
- Propelled Blackhawk to become the most extensive Visa gift program with over 225 million transactions annually
- Spearheaded developer strategy has resulted in 36 developers leveraging the platform via APIs
- Created advanced framework for API generation and set charter for developer experience
- API is currently the company’s fastest-growing product line; YoY revenue has increased upwards of 70%
- Built consensus around migration to cloud/IaaS strategy that aligns infrastructure to business objectives
- Published cloud patterns for DevOps to guide cloud architecture design
- To date, achieved a 23% cost reduction and improved SLAs for APIs and five different platforms
Chief Technology Officer & Acting President
Evergreen Energy
05.2010 - 08.2011
- Company Overview: Renewable energy pioneer with innovative carbon measurement algorithms and technology
- Analyzed and restructured operating model for GreenCert product, recognized by the European Union as an acceptable metric for carbon measurements and utilized by power plant operators as an operational intelligence tool, integrated with IBM Smart Grid
- Transformed product and technology strategy, moving from proprietary IBM backend to open source
- Delivered GreenCert EMIT, a subscription-based service with best-in-class data visualization and interpretation properties for viewing and interpreting public emissions data
Chief Technology Officer
Enhanced Communication Delivery Systems
05.2009 - 05.2010
- Company Overview: Provider of enhanced messaging systems with automated cascading notifications and multi-channel support
- Tapped by CEO to lead turnaround initiative of platform initially designed for emergency notifications
- Reduced OPEX by 37% by transitioning production from a hosted to a cloud-based model and devised a strategy to commercialize the technology
- Designed and launched ecENACT Market, a multi-channel, bi-directional communication platform, which concentrated on delivery to mobile devices
Chief Technology Officer & Distinguished Engineer – JavaFX
Sun Microsystems
02.2008 - 03.2009
- Company Overview: American technology pioneer – launched Java, Solaris OS, and other innovations
- Acquired by Oracle in 2010
- Lead engineer for JavaFX, Sun’s Rich Internet Application platform, which leverages Java to enable engineers to create cross-platform expressive applications
- Designed developer models for open source contributions and many public programming interfaces
- Managed platform strategy and innovation
- I defined Agile development/requirement management processes and scaled them across US, Europe, and India teams
- Created proof of concept for JavaFX; identified best-fit video codec for cross-platform distribution in Java and JavaFX
- American technology pioneer – launched Java, Solaris OS, and other innovations
- Acquired by Oracle in 2010
Chief Technology Officer & Distinguished Engineer – JavaFX
Sun Microsystems
02.2008 - 03.2009
- Company Overview: American technology pioneer – launched Java, Solaris OS, and other innovations
- Acquired by Oracle in 2010
- Lead engineer for JavaFX, Sun’s Rich Internet Application platform, which leverages Java to enable engineers to create cross-platform expressive applications
- Designed developer models for open source contributions and many public programming interfaces
- Managed platform strategy and innovation
- I defined Agile development/requirement management processes and scaled them across US, Europe, and India teams
- Created proof of concept for JavaFX; identified best-fit video codec for cross-platform distribution in Java and JavaFX
- American technology pioneer – launched Java, Solaris OS, and other innovations
- Acquired by Oracle in 2010
Chief Technology Officer & Distinguished Engineer – JavaFX
Sun Microsystems
02.2008 - 03.2009
- Company Overview: American technology pioneer – launched Java, Solaris OS, and other innovations
- Acquired by Oracle in 2010
- Lead engineer for JavaFX, Sun’s Rich Internet Application platform, which leverages Java to enable engineers to create cross-platform expressive applications
- Designed developer models for open source contributions and many public programming interfaces
- Managed platform strategy and innovation
- I defined Agile development/requirement management processes and scaled them across US, Europe, and India teams
- Created proof of concept for JavaFX; identified best-fit video codec for cross-platform distribution in Java and JavaFX
- American technology pioneer – launched Java, Solaris OS, and other innovations
- Acquired by Oracle in 2010
Distinguished Engineer – SOA Software Division
Sun Microsystems
08.2006 - 02.2008
- Achieved prestigious Distinguished Engineer status
- Completed a yearlong process that included vetting by Sun Distinguished Engineers, Fellows, and industry thought leaders
- Demonstrated ability to drive shareholder value through innovation and earned promotion to CTO of SOA division
- Designed next-gen architecture for Sun’s first SOA product release, Java CAPS 6; delivered $65M in revenue in year one
- Crystallized Sun’s SOA open-source effort to compete with Red Hat’s middleware enterprise service bus (ESB)
- Forged relationships with influential community participants for open ESB initiative
Chief Technology Officer & Distinguished Engineer – SOA Software Division
SUN MICROSYSTEMS
01.2005 - 01.2007
- Company Overview: American technology pioneer – launched Java, Solaris OS, and other innovations
- Acquired by Oracle in 2010
- Sun’s 1st SOA Release – Open Source Development Model – Enterprise Integration Platforms
- Achieved prestigious Distinguished Engineer status
- Completed a yearlong process that included vetting by Sun Distinguished Engineers, Fellows, and industry thought leaders
- Demonstrated ability to drive shareholder value through innovation and earned promotion to CTO of SOA division
- Designed next-gen architecture for Sun’s first SOA product release, Java CAPS 6; delivered $65M in revenue in year one
- Crystallized Sun’s SOA open-source effort to compete with Red Hat’s middleware enterprise service bus (ESB)
- Forged relationships with influential community participants for open ESB initiative
- American technology pioneer – launched Java, Solaris OS, and other innovations
- Acquired by Oracle in 2010
Chief Architect – Customer Network Services
Sun Microsystems
09.2003 - 08.2006
- Created and drove technology roadmap
- Delivered $400M annual revenue and utilized novel technology to accelerate component integration
- Architected groundbreaking IT as a service model, delivering highly scalable, 24/7/365 remote management of heterogeneous IT environments with no customer investment in IT infrastructure
- Chaired Sun’s enterprise architecture advisory board and manageability strategic working group
- Contributed to due diligence and integration for StorageTek, Aduva, and SevenSpace acquisitions
Director of Technology Services
Rogue Wave Software Inc.
01.2002 - 02.2003
- Revitalized consulting practice through process change and strategic business development—Drove utilization rate from 18% to 75% with key customer engagements that included JP Morgan-Chase, Goldman-Sachs, Microsoft and others.
- Architected market reference data solution for JPMorgan Chase to address newly introduced T+1 regulation; processed 15 million transactions daily and enabled JPM to slash $36M daily liability by 30%
Chief Technology Officer
Edenet Communications
06.2000 - 12.2001
- Established technical roadmap and leadership vision for a start-up that provided hyper-targeted advertising to hospital patients using anonymous patient identifiers
- Cut per-bed capital costs from $2200 to $970 by transitioning media delivery from analog to all-digital solution
- Reduced operational costs by $40,000 annually per hospital
- Managed technology budget and roadmap, directed the engineering team to achieve on-time release cycles, and oversaw IT and NOC resources
Director of Technology
LUTRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
04.1997 - 05.2000
- Key contributor to design and implementation of Lutris' open source application server, Enhydra.
- Spearheaded the development of a consulting practice that funded the company’s operations for the first two years
- Created an open-source community development and platform strategy, architecture, and implementation
Senior Staff Engineer
Sun Microsystems
09.1992 - 03.1997
- Pioneered use of Java for system and network management as development lead for Java Management APIs (JMAPI) effort
- Set vision, goals, and overall architecture; organized and directed JMAPI team; and managed internal/external stakeholders, including JavaSoft business unit and external ISVs
- Represented Sun in The Open Group and the Desktop Management Task Force standards organization
Education
Bachelor of Science (BS) - Mathematics And Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA05-1981
Skills
- Building and Leading World-Class Teams
- Product and Technology Innovation
- Engineering Execution Focus
- Balances Tactical and Strategic Thinking
- Crisp, Data Driven Decision Making
- Enterprise and Cloud Architecture
- M&A Integration
- Transformation and Change Management
- Organizational Development
Patents
- US 8577761, System and method for dynamic offering topologies.
- US 8655757, System and method for assigning a unique asset identity.
- US 8725610, System and method for managing privacy for offerings.
- US 9824361, System and method for discovering and managing remote assets.
Publications And Speaking Engagements
I have been published a number of times and have had numerous speaking engagements. Below are a few examples.
- JavaFX: Java and Rich Internet Applications, Pearson Technology Summit, Denver, CO, 11/2008
- Service Oriented Architecture for Implementing IT Services, IEEE Workshop, Shanghai, China, 06/2006
- Unlocking Legacy Systems through Web Services, Business Management South America, 03/2003
- Web Services: Fact or Fiction, Colorado Software Symposium, Denver, CO, 11/2002
- JMAPI: Write Once, Manage Everywhere, Proceedings of the JavaOne Conference, San Francisco, CA, 04/1998
Timeline
CTO
Tallied Technologies
03.2022 - Current
Chief Technology Officer
Pie Insurance
04.2019 - 12.2021
Chief Strategy Officer
BurstIQ Analytics
07.2017 - 03.2019
Chief Technology Officer
Blackhawk Network
04.2011 - 05.2017
Chief Technology Officer & Acting President
Evergreen Energy
05.2010 - 08.2011
Chief Technology Officer
Enhanced Communication Delivery Systems
05.2009 - 05.2010
Chief Technology Officer & Distinguished Engineer – JavaFX
Sun Microsystems
02.2008 - 03.2009
Chief Technology Officer & Distinguished Engineer – JavaFX
Sun Microsystems
02.2008 - 03.2009
Chief Technology Officer & Distinguished Engineer – JavaFX
Sun Microsystems
02.2008 - 03.2009
Distinguished Engineer – SOA Software Division
Sun Microsystems
08.2006 - 02.2008
Chief Technology Officer & Distinguished Engineer – SOA Software Division
SUN MICROSYSTEMS
01.2005 - 01.2007
Chief Architect – Customer Network Services
Sun Microsystems
09.2003 - 08.2006
Director of Technology Services
Rogue Wave Software Inc.
01.2002 - 02.2003
Chief Technology Officer
Edenet Communications
06.2000 - 12.2001
Director of Technology
LUTRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
04.1997 - 05.2000
Senior Staff Engineer
Sun Microsystems
09.1992 - 03.1997
Bachelor of Science (BS) - Mathematics And Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
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