Engineer

Michael Holden has worked with internet technologies since before the birth of the web as we know it today. He has participated in the development of many technologies that we now think of as commonplace and won several awards in the process.

As CTO of Super Pod, LLC, Michael has provided Media Village with technology development and consulting services. Over the past two years, Michael has overseen the development and release of a newly designed site, the implementation of a variety of user-focused features and has developed numerous back-end technologies to support ongoing publishing and distribution efforts.

As a producer and technologist for Paul Allen’s ground-breaking Starwave Corporation, Michael was responsible for developing sites such as ABCNews.com, TheStreet.com, Go.com, Family.com and a variety of ESPN and Disney-related properties. His teams won Webbies and a variety of other awards between 1995 and 1998.

Michael left Starwave to pursue his own entrepreneurial ambitions, and was a founder and Chief Technology Officer of noted design and development firm Network Nine, Inc. It was in that capacity that he architected and/or engineered numerous high-profile projects, including the Experience Music Project, Zumiez.com, BuyCurious.com and several sites for Microsoft. Network Nine, Inc. won the Communication Arts award for Interactive Design in 1999 for their work on BuyCurious.com.

Michael was called to Amazon.com in the Fall of 2002 by ultra-smart open-source luminaries using Mason, a perl-based component-oriented approach to website software development. While at Amazon.com, Michael re-wrote the Goldbox, dealt with all home page holiday content, produced 60 segments of celebrity-generated Holiday content, was responsible for all holiday ship messaging on the site as well as numerous other projects too numerous to list here.

In January 2004, Michael started Super Pod, LLC with the goal of pairing ultra-high-end design and branding services coupled with rock-solid internet technologies. The result has been amazing and subject to popular acclaim.

Prior to the birth of the web, Michael managed Academic Computing services and facilities at Seattle University and was a professional sound engineer. He’s built lots of studios and toured with bands you’ve probably heard of.

Michael lives in Seattle, has two kids and a Chihuahua. He likes espresso, house music, skateboarding, linux, perl, and Burning Man.