Michael Callahan

Investor

Palo Alto, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Investor and Advisor

    2018 - Current

    Working with early-stage companies in enterprise infrastructure software, and with various math-, software- and education-related projects

  • Investor, Member Board Of Directors

    2011

    Seed investor in and member of the Board of Directors of the leading company delivering scalable monitoring as a service for the cloud era

  • Cofounder, Founding CEO, Board Member

    2014 - 2018

    Awake’s advanced network traffic analysis solution recognized malicious intent and learns over time—tracking entities, deducing and remembering their pattens of behavior, and providing actionable insights to elevate a security team’s ability to respond rapidly to danger

  • Entrepreneur in Residence

    2011 - 2014

  • Consultant

    2010 - 2011

  • Chief Technologist, StorageWorks Enterprise NAS

    2007 - 2009

  • Cofounder, CTO

    2000 - 2007

    Cofounded and served as CTO for an early Big Data infrastructure company that built a scale-out cluster file system suitable for mission-critical, latency-sensitive applications. We helped large enterprise and government customers move applications to horizontally-scaled industry-standard servers starting in 2002, long before the approach became common. As the technical founder and CTO, I helped recruit a world-class engineering and business team, raise multiple rounds of funding from Greylock Partners, NEA and Fidelity Ventures, design and deliver the product, and sell our technology into F500/G2000 accounts and major government environments. At time of acquisition by HP, we had over 1000 paying customers.

  • Dir., Advanced Development

    1999 - 2000

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