Michael Palassis

Michael Palassis has extensive work experience in various roles and companies. Michael currently works as a Unicorn Engineer (Product) at Defense Unicorns since November 2022. Prior to this, they worked at 84.51° as an Infrastructure Architect from 2018 to November 2022, and as a Capacity / Performance / DR Lead from 2015 to 2018. Michael also has experience working at Cornerstone Brands Inc., where they held roles such as Sr. Digital Commerce Operations Manager from 2014 to 2015, Web Operations Manager from 2011 to 2014, and Sr. Internet Operations Engineer from 2009 to 2011. Before that, they worked at Accenture as a Client Lead from February 2004 to November 2009. Michael also worked at the University of Cincinnati in the College of Business Distance Learning role in 2003, and at General Electric in the Global Information Security & eSupply Chain Solutions role from 2001 to 2003.

Michael Palassis earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree in Information Systems from the University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business. Additionally, they have obtained several certifications including CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator from The Linux Foundation, Certified Administrator in SUSE Rancher 2.5 from SUSE, Dynatrace Associate from Dynatrace, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate from HashiCorp, Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals from Microsoft, PCA: Portworx Certified Admin from Portworx, and Professional Scrum Master I from Scrum.org. The specific months and years of when they obtained these certifications are not provided.