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Mike Shaver

Mike Shaver
Shaver in 2007
Born
Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
OccupationVP of Engineering at Fastly

Mike Shaver is the vice president of engineering at Fastly. He is a former executive and engineer at Netscape Communications, Mozilla Corporation, and Facebook.

Career

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Shaver attended high school at Lisgar Collegiate Institute 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[1][2] and later zerøknowledge, Cluster File Systems, and the Oracle Corporation.[3] 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.[4][5][6] At Mozilla, Shaver worked with Mike Schroepfer, who also later began working at Facebook.[7]

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.[8][9] 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.[10]

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.[10]

In 2022, Shaver began working for Shopify as a Distinguished Engineer.[11]

In October 2024, Shaver joined the Ladybird Browser Initiative as a board member.[12]

In 2025, Shaver began working for Fastly as Vice President of Engineering.[13]

References

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  1. ^ "Such Sweet Sorrow".
  2. ^ "Mike Shaver Leaving Netscape". mozillaZine. January 12, 2000. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
  3. ^ "About Mike Shaver – Mozilla". 2006-03-31. Archived from the original on 2008-12-11. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
  4. ^ shaver » on evangelism
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Moe, Folk (2012). Online Credibility and Digital Ethos: Evaluating Computer-Mediated Communication: Evaluating Computer-Mediated Communication. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. ISBN 9781466626638.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Mozilla Says "Ten Fucking Days"". ha.ckers. 2007-08-03. Archived from the original on 2013-04-14. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
  9. ^ shaver » about ten days at black hat
  10. ^ a b Galang, Jessica (2018-10-22). "Mike Shaver joins integrate.ai as CTO". BetaKit. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  11. ^ Twitter https://twitter.com/shaver/status/1500276491099287557. Retrieved 2022-03-06. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ^ Kling, Andreas (18 October 2024). "Mike Shaver joins the Ladybird Board". Ladybird. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  13. ^ "Mike Shaver". Staircase Ventures. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
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