Michael Silver
Co-Founder & CEO at Kaizen
Experience
Career
2025Kaizen
Co-founderCo-Founder & CEO · San Francisco, CA · 2025 – Present
2024Jamsocket
Senior Software Engineer · New York, New York, United States · 2024
2022Gather
Engineering Manager, Infrastructure & Engineering Productivity · 2022 – 2023
- 2021
Gather
Team Lead (Manager), Infrastructure · 2021 – 2022
- 2020
Gather
Tech Lead, Infrastructure · 2020 – 2021
- 2020
Gather
Software Engineer · 2020
2020SingleStore
Software Engineering Intern · 2020
2019Facebook
Software Engineering Intern · Greater Seattle Area · 2019
2017Apple
Software Engineering Intern · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017
2016MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Undergraduate Researcher · Greater Boston Area · 2016 – 2017
- 2016
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Infrastructure Engineer · Greater Boston Area · 2016
- 2014
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Research Intern · Greater Boston Area · 2014 – 2016
2013Russian School of Mathematics
Private Tutor · Greater Boston Area · 2013 – 2014
2014Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Research Assistant · Greater Boston Area · 2014
Bio
Michael was Gather’s first engineer and head of infrastructure, scaling the business through Series B ($77M Sequoia/Index). He also served as first engineer at Jamsocket (acq. Modal), helping build a new Kubernetes-like orchestrator in Rust. Previously, he worked on databases at SingleStore, distributed systems at Meta, and Siri at Apple. Michael conducted research on question answering and information retrieval at MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from MIT.