Mike Calligaro

Background

About Mike Calligaro

I started my career as a hardware design engineer, and was actually hired by Microsoft during a small window of time in which we were planning to build a supercomputer to do video on demand. Then the internet/web took off and killed that project.So here I was, a hardware engineer at a software company. I loved the place, so I stayed, learned to code, and quickly moved on to writing hardware device drivers. From there I moved to OS kernels. Then kernel debuggers. Then engineering systems. I did a brief stint in augmented reality before a reorg put me on the browser team, where I now do top level UI work.There might be irony in the fact that the invention of the web browser effectively killed my first project at the company, and now I work on one. I look back at my journey and see a steady progression from designing the metal itself, to coding against the metal, to moving higher and higher on the stack until now I'm almost as far away from the metal (client side) as I can get.I'm enjoying myself, but I've enjoyed every step.