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Mike Shaver | |
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 Shaver in 2007 | |
| Born | Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada |
| Occupation | VP of Engineering at Tailscale |
Mike Shaver is the vice president of engineering at Tailscale. He is a former executive and engineer at Netscape Communications, Mozilla Corporation, Facebook, and Fastly.
Career
[edit]Shaver attended high school at Lisgar Collegiate Institute[1] in Ottawa, where he began working with Ingenia Communications Corporation, an Ottawa-area computer consultancy that later dissolved. Starting as a summer student who worked as a system administrator and software developer, he was promoted to chief systems architect and eventually Chief technical officer (CTO).[citation needed]
Shaver eventually left to work at Netscape Communications[2][3] and later zerøknowledge, Cluster File Systems, and the Oracle Corporation.[4] Beginning as a visiting developer, he became a founding member of the Mozilla Organization in 1998.
He was VP of Engineering and VP of Technical Strategy for the Mozilla Corporation where he advocated for open web standards.[5][6][7] At Mozilla, Shaver worked with Mike Schroepfer, who also later began working at Facebook.[8]
In 2007, he handed out business cards with "ten fucking days" hand-written on them, referencing a recent ten-day turnaround for a security flaw from notification to releasing a fixed version of Firefox. His intent was to show confidence in Mozilla's ability to quickly address security issues.[9][10] This was misunderstood as a general or official Mozilla policy.[citation needed] Shaver stayed at Mozilla for six years before he departed to Facebook, where he became the director of engineering from 2011 to 2016.[11]
In 2016, Shaver returned to Canada and joined Real Ventures. His first investment was the startup called integrate.ai, where he also serves as CTO.[11]
In 2022, Shaver began working for Shopify as a Distinguished Engineer.[12]
In October 2024, Shaver joined the Ladybird Browser Initiative as a board member.[13]
In 2025, Shaver began working for Fastly as Vice President of Engineering.[14]
In July 2026, Shaver started working for Tailscale as Vice President of Engineering.[15]
References
[edit]- ↑ Caplan, Avi (Winter 2019). "Alere Flammam Issue XXXIII" (PDF). Alere Flammam. p. 8. Retrieved 2026-05-21.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Such Sweet Sorrow".
- ↑ "Mike Shaver Leaving Netscape". mozillaZine. January 12, 2000. Archived from the original on 2023-06-10. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
- ↑ "About Mike Shaver – Mozilla". 2006-03-31. Archived from the original on 2008-12-11. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
- ↑ shaver » on evangelism
- ↑ Swigart, Scott; Sean Campbell (March 20, 2008). "Interview with Mike Shaver – Chief Evangelist – Mozilla". How Software is Built. Archived from the original on December 25, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
- ↑ Moe, Folk (2012). Online Credibility and Digital Ethos: Evaluating Computer-Mediated Communication: Evaluating Computer-Mediated Communication. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. ISBN 9781466626638.
- ↑ Metz, Cade; Isaac, Mike (2019-05-17). "Facebook's A.I. Whiz Now Faces the Task of Cleaning It Up. Sometimes That Brings Him to Tears". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
- ↑ "Mozilla Says "Ten Fucking Days"". ha.ckers. 2007-08-03. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
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- 1 2 Galang, Jessica (2018-10-22). "Mike Shaver joins integrate.ai as CTO". BetaKit. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
- ↑ Twitter https://twitter.com/shaver/status/1500276491099287557. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ Kling, Andreas (18 October 2024). "Mike Shaver joins the Ladybird Board". Ladybird. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
- ↑ "Mike Shaver". Staircase Ventures. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
- ↑ Shaver, Mike (2026-07-21). "Mike Shaver joins Tailscale as VP of Engineering". Tailscale. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
External links
[edit]- Mike Shaver's Weblog, noise from signal
- Shaverman webcomic, (pg1 | pg2)
