About
Michael Barinek is a Practice Manager and Developer at Pivotal Labs in Boulder. He has a background in Software Engineering and Location Based Services. Michael began his career at Lucent Technologies in Chicago and relocated with his family to Boulder in 2004. He has helped lead agile teams at several startups including Envysion, Mouth Watering Media, and most recently Gnip. He enjoys skateboarding, backcountry snowboarding and hiking. Feel free to contact him at barinek@gmail.com or @barinek on twitter.Experience
Director of Engineering at Pivotal Labs
July 2010 – Present
Practice Manager at Pivotal Labs
January 2010 – July 2010
Starting the Boulder Pivotal Practice
System Architect at Gnip
October 2008 – January 2010
Startup Boulder, CO
Application Architect at Envysion
January 2008 – October 2008
Startup Louisville, CO
Sr. Software Engineer at ESRI
August 2006 – January 2008
Sr. Software Engineer at Intrado Inc.
(acquired team at Lucent)
May 2001 – May 2006
Software Engineer at Lucent Technologies Inc.
January 2001 – May 2001
Engineer at US Environmental Protection Agency
January 1999 – January 2001
Engineer at Geomatrix
February 1998 – January 1999
Consulting
Sr. Software Consultant at Mouth Watering Media
April 2008 – May 2009
Startup Houston, TX
Sr. Software Consultant at New School Media
May 2006 – March 2007
Startup Aspen, CO
Education
DePaul University
MS Computer Science, Software Engineering
University of Iowa
MS Geology, Metamorphic Petrology
