Michael Birk is the co-founder and CTO of Baotris, where he helps ecommerce businesses to leverage data and technology to fuel their growth.  Michael brings over two decades of engineering experience, most recently as Director of Engineering at Unity Technologies, where he scaled the analytics engineering team from a small handful to more than 40 full-time engineers.  Prior to that, Michael worked with John Cheng at Playnomics and helped guide the company through the acquisition by Unity.

Michael has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.