Nikos Michalakis

Nikos Michalakis is the Senior Vice President of Software Platform at Woven Planet Holdings*. He is responsible for Arene and the company's software infrastructure and tools including cloud, big data, machine learning infrastructure, simulation, and vehicle operating system. He desires to realize the most programmable vehicles on the planet through Arene and the next generation e-platform.

Nikos joined the Toyota family in 2016 at Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in Silicon Valley as a cloud architect and then Director of the Cloud and Big Data Platform. Prior to Toyota, he was at Netflix's Cloud Platform, the team responsible for services like Eureka, Archaius and Ribbon. There he wrote tools that helped scale the productivity of Netflix engineers and created a curriculum to educate them about microservice architectures.

Before Toyota, Nikos helped develop software and teams in a series of start-ups in a variety of industries, sizes and growth trajectories: a 30-person big data start-up (acquired by Microsoft), an ed-tech start-up that grew from 60 to 200 employees (acquired by Wiley), an online advertising network that grew from 300 to 500 employees (acquired by Amobee) and a cloud provider start-up that grew from 5 to 40 employees. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.