CTO / Staff+ Engineer / Builder
Technical leadership,
grounded in the work.
I lead product engineering from ambiguous first decisions through shipped systems. More than 20 years building web, mobile, AI-enabled, consumer, and enterprise software.
Michael Watts
San Francisco Bay Area
What I bring
Executive context.
Staff-level depth.
Builder's momentum.
I work where product ambiguity, engineering complexity, and delivery pressure meet: setting direction, making the architecture legible, strengthening teams, and writing the critical code.
Built with teams at
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