Summary
Michael Len is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in online video and mobile playback systems, currently working on Android client infrastructure and player development at YouTube. He has a strong track record designing and leading native SDKs and mobile playback teams at Ooyala, and earlier experience on advertising platforms at Hulu and UX prototyping at Microsoft. Michael excels at bridging product-facing features—advertising, UI, video rendering, content protection—and developer ergonomics to accelerate team velocity. He is passionate about driving innovation in personalized, interactive video experiences and frequently applies cross-domain learnings to solve hard problems. Based in Mountain View and a Carnegie Mellon CS graduate, he continuously focuses on personal and organizational improvement to keep teams shipping high-quality work. An unexpected detail: he emphasizes optimizing engineering environments as much as code, ensuring peers have mentors and processes that enable peak performance.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University