About Micheal Micheal Benedict leads Engineering Productivity at Pinterest. He and his team focus on developer experience, building tools and platforms for over a thousand engineers to effectively code, build, deploy and operate workloads on the cloud. Mr. Benedict has also built Infrastructure and Cloud Governance programs at Pinterest and previously, at Twitter -- focussed on managing cloud vendor relationships, infrastructure budget management, cloud migration, capacity forecasting and planning and cloud cost attribution (chargeback). Links:
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com

Teletraan: https://github.com/pinterest/teletraan

Twitter: https://twitter.com/micheal

Pinterestcareers.com: https://pinterestcareers.com

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