👤 About

Micheal Benedict is the Head of Infrastructure Engineering (Director of Engineering) at Airtable, where he leads the development and enablement of critical infrastructure components including Serving Infrastructure, Developer Platform, Compute Platform, Traffic Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Storage/Databases, Data Infrastructure, and Observability.

Airtable enables any team to create apps on top of shared data and power their most critical and unique workflows. Teams at more than 300,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on the Airtable Connected Apps Platform to connect their people and data and achieve their most important goals. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, Airtable ranks #6 on the Forbes Cloud 100 and has raised $1.36 billion to date.

Previously, Micheal was the Head of Developer Platform & Infrastructure at Databricks, overseeing a team of 50+ engineers. He was instrumental in enhancing the developer experience, comprehensive testing frameworks, and optimized CI/CD processes, significantly improving the efficiency and scalability of Databrick's multi-cloud operations.

Micheal has extensive experience from his tenure at Pinterest, where he expanded the engineering productivity team. He played a pivotal role in enhancing coding, building, and software delivery processes for more than 1000 engineers. His contributions included building the Infrastructure Governance team at Pinterest that managed a $400MM+ Cloud spend budget.

Before Pinterest, Micheal worked as a Software Engineer at Twitter, focusing on service lifecycle management, messaging infrastructure, and compute infrastructure. He also co-founded Teamdotly, where he developed innovative web-based platforms for education and presentations.

Micheal gained his Master's degree in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo, New York.