Michael DeFelice
michael.defelice@gmail.com

Summary:
    Hands-on technology leader with 20+ years experience across cloud computing, SaaS, and consulting; has co-founded multiple startups


Skills:
    Deep expertise in product incubation, applied data science, technical due diligence, technical leadership, and systems architecture & engineering

Core Technical Stack:
    Product Incubation:
        Agentic development & LLM workflows; Python, Node.js, and Go APIs & microservices via FastAPI, Express, Postgres, Mongo; web & mobile interfaces via React, Vue.js, Tailwind; cloud infrastructure & CI/CD standardization via GCP & AWS
    Applied Data Science:
        AI/ML productization, statistical modeling, and forecasting via Python (pandas, scikit-learn, xgboost, SHAP, PyTorch); large-scale data pipelines & warehousing via BigQuery, Spark, Pub/Sub


Work Experience:

Sep 2025 - Present
Venture Incubation & Technical Advisory

As Co-Founder & Technical Partner, lead our product incubation, architecture, and AI/ML development across multiple proprietary ventures and consulting engagements.

Oct 2021 - Sep 2025
NOCTEM Health

As CTO, responsible for technical product development, R&D, scaling, operations, and talent acquisition & development for a healthtech startup focused on delivering a platform that enables providers to scale their ability to treat insomnia patients.

Key contributions included:
* Worked closely with the CEO to ensure that NOCTEM's investment in technology & technical talent aligned with its business goals & needs over time
* Supported the company's clinical validation & R&D initiatives; delivered a prototype that manages & optimizes sleep, fatigue, and stress for US Armed Forces personnel
* Developed data collection, aggregation, and reporting pipelines to determine the clinical effect of each patient's treatment and calculate billable RTM CPT codes - enabling customer reimbursement for patient care
* Integrated enterprise auth, reporting, and custom workflows for larger hospital systems
* Established engineering & operational standards across code quality, testing, documentation, work planning, and triage to minimize rework & technical debt

Jan 2018 - Oct 2021
CyberFortress

As Co-Founder & CTO, responsible for technical R&D, product development, scaling, operations, and talent acquisition & development for an insurtech startup focused on building a new kind of cyber policy for ecommerce.

Key contributions included:
* Built an ML underwriting model that determines a company's outage risk and policy pricing in seconds from an email address or domain name; validated the model with external insurance actuaries and launched a standalone downtime risk score offering
* Developed continuous data collection, storage, and aggregation pipelines across hundreds of thousands of ecommerce domains
* Completed a $3.2M seed round co-led by Greycroft & Live Oak Venture Partners
* Built our Risk Modeling, Product Engineering, and Product Operations practices - delivering our customer-facing insurance platform and partner/regulator reporting systems

May 2016 - Aug 2019
Jungle Disk

As a Principal Data Scientist, worked closely with the CEO on strategic growth opportunities.

Key contributions included:
* Modeled & managed price changes that significantly drove revenue growth in a shrinking market
* Performed financial forecasting, customer growth & LTV modeling, and automated KPI reporting; built & integrated the digital marketing, lead gen, and sales operations platforms
* Developed core IP & filed patents on generative text & time-series ML; performed technical due diligence for strategic acquisitions

Apr 2013 - Apr 2017
GoodTokens

As Co-Founder & Board Member for a culture management startup, developed the product's initial APIs while working closely with the CEO and our design & development partners on its launch.

Jun 2010 - May 2016
Rackspace

As a Principal Architect, led diligence & engineering for incubation projects to seed new business practice areas; previously led technical due diligence in Corporate Development (M&A, investments, partnerships, integrations) and served as Chief Infrastructure Services Architect for the Managed Storage, Backup, and Virtualization product lines.

Key contributions included:
* Incubated the Google Apps for Work, Microsoft Private Cloud, and Office 365 offerings in direct partnership with Google & Microsoft; designed & built the provisioning, metering, billing, and reseller integration systems
* Supported the ZeroVM, Exceptional Cloud Services, and Object Rocket acquisitions & post-merger integrations
* Built a team to design & vet the Managed Storage & Data Protection offerings - partnering with Product, Support, and Infrastructure Operations leadership to evolve the enterprise solutions portfolio

Feb 2006 - Jun 2010
Tesoro

As an Enterprise Architect (and previously Systems Engineer), designed & operated mission-critical data center storage, server, virtualization, and backup infrastructure.

Oct 2004 - Feb 2006
Strategic Business Systems

As a consultant representing Dell, delivered highly-available storage & server solutions to enterprise clients across the country.


Patents:
    US20190327259A1: Vulnerability Profiling Based on Time Series Analysis of Data Streams
    US20190236148A1: Generative Text Using a Personality Model
    US20190236139A1: Natural Language Generation Using Pinned Text and Multiple Discriminators


Education:
    1999 - 2003: Ursinus College; BS Computer Science


Volunteer Experience:
    Jun 2016 - Present: Teach music theory, guitar, and ukulele
    Feb 2017 - Nov 2019: Volunteer with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
    May 2017 - Jan 2019: Mentor at RealCo