After developing a passion for the web early on in high school I have developed into a pragmatic, product focused problem solver with loads of experience managing technical teams that rapidly produce great applications. Looking back, my track record of shipping successful products at companies like Apple, Amazon, Quid, and Yammer speaks for itself; I’m your go-to guy for everything from high-level system design to low level performance issues.
One of the things MustWin prides itself on is our ability to deliver value to our clients quickly. We do this through smart technology choices, good organizational practices and an intense focus on managing our people well.
Being enthusiastic about delivering value to our customers joins our team together. It’s fun working with people that care as much about our products like we do.
Read the full post: Maintaining Velocity by Mike Ihbe
Metrics provides the insight into your production systems that gives you the understanding you need to resolve performance issues and detect problems quickly and effectively.
Metrics is a javascript port of Coda Hale’s metrics library. It tracks application business or performance metrics and exposes them through a variety of interfaces in a standard format that can be used to collect and analyze your metrics from production systems.
The impetus behind sharding is typically that your database machines are becoming unsustainably large. In our case, we had huge quarter million dollar machines with tons of spinning disks. Leveling up this monstrosity would have been untenably expensive.
Read the full Yammer Engineering Blog post: Sharding a Large Rails App by Mike Ihbe
MustWin is the application development consultancy I founded with Wil Everts. We’re like the A-Team (with fewer gold chains.) We can produce a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that isn’t just a throw away application. Have a project that’s moving too slowly? We’re the perfect trump card in your hand! Call us when you don’t know where to begin or when you need some help accelerating results.
Yammer is a pioneer of the Enterprise Social Networking space, now used by 85% of the Fortune 500. While I was there we grew from 50 to 500 people, acquired more than 5 million active users, defeated big name competitors like Salesforce.com, and were acquired by Microsoft for $1.2 billion dollars.
Mantanks is the coolest way to make a custom tank top. We’ve created a fun “bro” brand and we streamlined the creation of a custom tank top as much as possible. Follow us on twitter @mantanks and create your first tank today!
I built the whole thing in my free time! This is definitely an ongoing project and I’ve had a lot of help from my cofounders with mastering the design.
Quid is building a data aggregation, visualization and analysis platform focused on informing decision makers about private companies and emerging technology data.
While at Quid I led the development of 2 Ruby on Rails applications and a data collection framework responsible for cost-effectively collecting millions of datapoints per day.
Apple became the world’s most valuable company by delivering products with which people fall in love. While there I had the pleasure of meeting both Steve Jobs and Jony Ive!
I worked improving the software update process by aggregating and reporting on errors from our countless test machines.
Amazon is the world’s leading e-commerce platform. They evangelized a new paradigm of software design known as service-oriented architecture and built some of the first highly-distributed data stores. As one of my first jobs, Amazon was an incredible learning experience. I picked up a ton of software design expertise from dealing with the some of the best people in the business.
