2x founder

Michael Malis

Founder of pgrust, prev founder of Freshpaint

Founder

Freshpaint· Summer 2019 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @mmalisper

2026Founder· pgrust

Founder · since 2019

Company

pgrust

Role

Founder

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Freshpaint

Customer data collection, safeguarding, & activation for healthcare

Summer 2019

Experience

Career

pgrust
Founder
Founder · 2026 – Present
2026
Freshpaint
Founder
Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2019 – 2026
2019
Heap
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2016 – 2019
2016
Uber
Software Engineering Intern · San Francisco Bay Area · 2015
2015

Bio

After graduating high school in 2015, I joined Heap. While there I worked on scaling their cluster of Postgres instances that has around a Petabyte of data. I eventually took over and lead the database team there. While at Heap I shipped a large number of performance improvements and cost savings. You could say I was the primary person who scaled Heap. Due to the number of cost reduction projects I shipped, I was given the nickname "Michael Margins".