Michael Gat

Tech program manager. Cloud native. Actions not words. Servant to cats.

United States

About

Technical Program Manager, with 20 years of experience managing complex infrastructural, data-intensive programs. Data bigot. Actions not words.

Experience

  • Staff Technical Program Manager at MongoDB
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    TPM for the MongoDB Atlas Availability program

  • Caregiving at Career Break
    May 2024 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Addressed the needs of aging family members.

  • Senior Technical Program Manager: Compute, Infrastructure and Operations at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    May 2022 - May 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    TPM for the buildout of AWS Billing services in new air-gapped regions, feature parity across existing air-gapped regions, and region build automation for all regions. Reduced buildout time from over a year previously to four months by driving adoption of CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.

  • Senior Technical Program Manager at Stripe
    Aug 2021 - Mar 2022 · 8 mos

    Improved the cost-effectiveness of cloud-use across Stripe's compute, data, and development platforms, by running programs to reduce cost per transaction by 20%, and by streamlining FinOps posture to enable better prediction of spend and utilization. Also managed large business-driven scaling/de-scaling events including Black Friday/Cyber Monday.

  • Senior Technical Program Manager: Application Networking at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Jan 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Managed programs to improve load balancing capacity management, ensure prudent growth of our infrastructure spend in line with business growth, and minimize cost. Drove alignment of Load Balancing work and infrastructure with customer demand, and with the work of other organizations including Infrastructure Delivery, Core Networking, and external vendors. Also managed large event scaling and operations, including AWS support for Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday/Cyber Monday, and major Amazon Video events. Application Networking, VPC Endpoints (PrivateLink): Drove programs to manage onboarding of over 200 AWS services to VPC endpoints, use of security profiles and IPv6 adoption. Prioritized and planned work to expand VPC endpoint coverage and support internal partners/customers in order to best meet the requirements of key customers.