#18: Facebook's Marc Zuckerberg Doesn't Have Sh*t on Michael Clark

Michael is the VP of Engineering for VSCO, the community for expression.  He is responsible for the engineering and development of the mobile and web services used by the VSCO community.   Prior to VSCO Michael was the CTO of Photobucket.com. He was responsible for all aspects of technical operations and software development for Photobucket and all of its web and mobile services.  He had returned to Photobucket after having built the startup SafetyWeb.com which was a cloud based security product to help families learn what their children were doing on social media and mobile devices and provide alerts.  SafetyWeb was acquired by Experian in 2011.  Prior to SafetyWeb, Michael was the first executive hire and architect as Photobucket and scaled their infrastructure to accommodate more than 150 million registered users with over 15 billion images.   Michael has also held positions at NetApp, led development for solid state storage at TiGi Corp., built a telecom engineering organization at TouchAmerica, and helped build Citrix’s consulting services organization.  He has over 20 years of direct experience building scalable systems.   Michael grew up on a farm near Cherokee, IA. His family raised cattle, sheep, hogs, corn and soybeans.   At one time, Mike weighed over 435 pounds. Since then, Mike again turned his life upside down. He has competed in over 251 JuJitsu matches around the world, and has lost a TON of weight.    You can find Mike on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mpclark/