CTO & VP of Engineering
Facebook
An entrepreneur, technical architect and manager, Mike Schroepfer is responsible for harnessing Facebook’s culture of speed, creativity and exploration to build products, services and infrastructure that support more than one billion people worldwide.
Before coming to Facebook, Schroepfer was vice president of engineering at Mozilla Corporation, where he led the global, collaborative, open and participatory product development process behind Mozilla’s popular software, such as the Firefox Web browser.
Formerly the chief technology officer for Sun Microsystems’ data center automation division (“N1”), and founder, chief architect and director of engineering at CenterRun, he holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University. His first cellphone: “A Motorola DynaTAC (borrowed from my dad).”