Michael Russo’s career in software development spans embedded machine-to-machine communications, security frameworks and mobile applications. As CTO of Polar Mobile, Michael is guiding the company’s platform development efforts and aligning the team’s strategic research efforts in the fast-paced mobile space. Michael leads the development of SMART, Polar Mobile’s content and advertising mobile platform which has been used to rapidly deploy mobile applications across all major smartphone operating systems.
His engineering experience from his time at Microsoft, Sun Labs and the Palo Alto Research Center lies in the areas of distributed systems, scalable architectures, computer security, wireless networks and mobile technologies, all of which were garnered through his diverse industry experience building software in both research and production capacities.
Michael holds Computer Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo, and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.