Amir Michael
Manager Hardware Design, Facebook

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Amir Michael joined Facebook in 2009 and leads the hardware design team responsible for the design and implementation of the servers that power one of the most-trafficked sites in the world.

Amir was part of a small team at Facebook that embarked on project to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. The result of that project was a Facebook first dedicated data center which is 38% more efficient and 24% less expensive to build and run than other state-of-the-art data centers. Amir plays an active role in the Open Compute Project, Facebook’s initiative to share the custom-engineered technology in its first dedicated data center as an open source project.

Prior to Facebook, Amir worked at Google where he developed server and data center infrastructure. Amir holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.