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Michael Roberson

Enthusiast · DISC type i
Technical Program Manager at Cerebras Systems
📍 San Jose, California, United States

Michael is a Technical Program Manager at Cerebras, specializing in leading complex hardware projects to market. His background includes extensive experience in New Product Introduction (NPI) program management at Palo Alto Networks and Flex. He holds a degree in Materials Engineering from Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo.

Based on his career in the Bay Area, he may have an interest in the local culture and activities. His professional focus on hardware and networking technology suggests a passion for cutting-edge innovation both inside and outside of work.

He recently celebrated the launch of Cerebras Inference, highlighting its capability to run large language models 20x faster than GPU-based clouds.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Technical Program Manager
Job Level
Middle
Location
San Jose, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Michael shows up

Non-Confrontational
Amiable & Agreeable
Story Driven

They are more about building relationships than just cutting deals. They tend to be agreeable by nature, so take their promises with a pinch of salt.
 Unlike D or C types, they are convinced more by stories and testimonials.

Priorities

Topics Michael cares about

AI Inference Performance
He is proud of his company's latest achievements in AI, specifically highlighting the high token-per-second performance of Cerebras Inference on Llama 3. 1 models.
New Product Introduction
His career has been focused on NPI program management, where he has led complex projects to improve product quality, cost, and time-to-market at multiple tech companies.
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Career

Work history

7-2024
Technical Program Manager
Cerebras Systems
2-2021 - 7-2024
Senior NPI Program Manager
Palo Alto Networks
2-2018 - 2-2021
NPI Program Manager
Palo Alto Networks
6-2017 - 2-2018
NPI Program Manager
Flex
4-2015 - 5-2017
Program Manager III
Hyve Solutions
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Education
2006 - 2011
Materials Engineering
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

Influence (I) reflects the degree to which a person prefers to work by influencing or persuading others. Those scoring high tend to be people oriented, motivated by social recognition and building relationships.

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