Michael Driscoll
Co-Founder, CEO at Data Collective
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Driscoll is a veteran technologist, entrepreneur, and investor who has spent three decades building and scaling data-driven businesses from the lab to the cloud. He co-founded Metamarkets—where he led engineering to process hundreds of billions of events daily and helped create the open-source Druid database—and later ran the business as GM after its acquisition by Snap. As a founding partner at Data Collective he backs deep infrastructure and big-data founders, while as CEO and co-founder of Rill Data he focuses on real-time dashboards that keep pace with fast-moving businesses. His background blends hands-on systems engineering, PhD-level bioinformatics training, and early startup creation (including Dataspora and the origins of CustomInk), giving him rare fluency across research, product, and go-to-market. Based in San Francisco, he’s known for turning complex analytics challenges into production-grade platforms that scale.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. Government, A.B. Government at Harvard UniversityPh.D. Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Ph.D. Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at Boston University
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Github Skills (119)
python10
excel10
plex10
r10
duplicate-detection10
webscraping10
scrape10
rainmeter10
vector10
trendline10
monitoring9
treemap9
statistics9
discord9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
driscoll42/CEF_Awards_Software
Feb 2020 - Feb 2025
Code for the Automation of CEF's AwardSpring Scholarship scoring and validations
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
automation
driscoll42/chicago-engineering-and-tech-communities
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
A consolidated list of Chicago Engineering and Tech Communities and organizations
Contributions:1 review, 25 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
chicagoconsolidatedcommunitiesengineeringorganizations
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