Michael Talarczyk

Experience

RentPath

Director, Infrastructure 2012 - 2014 (about 2 years)

Managed production platform teams through acquisition from eBay by RentPath. Responsible for Los Angeles transition from eBay to RentPath networks. Managed security, vendor... more

eBay

Principal Systems Architect 2008 - 2012 (about 4 years)

Managed Oracle infrastructure team. Expanded data center network onto Cisco, Citrix, and HP hardware. Deployed NetScaler ADCs, enabling Layer 7 content switching to facilitate... more

Archer Education

CTO / Principal Architect 2006 - 2007 (about 1 year)

Architected and launched search engine for colleges using MySQL, Perl, and Catalyst MVC with Template Toolkit and jQuery UI. Participated in early recruiting efforts, strategy,... more

Exit

Rent.com

Director, Data 2001 - 2006 (over 4 years)

Hired and managed company's first data team. Architected Oracle data warehouse, saving >$1M in first-year vendor spend. Delivered reports to C-suite using Perl and HTML::Mason.... more

Founder

RadioCopilot

Employee

Archer Education, eBay, Rent.com, DreamWorks Animation SKG, Self, Peloton Interactive, JPMorgan Chase, Nayya, Stealth, Farther Finance, RentPath

Education

About

Achievements

- Principal Architect at Rent.com, sold to eBay for $415M
- Led AI/ML teams delivering JPMorgan's LLM Suite to 10K+ users
- Cofounded Campus Explorer, later rebranded to Archer Education
- Architected internal support platform for DreamWorks Feature Animation
- Administered CGI servers for Titanic, The Fifth Element, and What Dreams May Come

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Python AWS Leadership Data Warehouse Recommender Systems Kubernetes Linux Bash SQL Next.Js PostgreSQL LLMs AI TypeScript

Locations

New York City

Michael Talarczyk (He/Him)

Platform Architect / Engineering Leader