Mike Verderese

I lead engineering teams that ship AI products.

I lead the Breeze AI Platform team at HubSpot, and I help early-stage startups build with AI on the side.

Mike Verderese
Asbury Park, NJRemote

Now

HubSpot · 2024 – present

Staff Engineering Manager, Breeze AI Platform

The agent harnesses, skills and MCP tools that HubSpot's product teams build on, including Breeze Assistant and Agent Hub.

Selected work

All work

Strengths

  • Agent platforms

    Agent harnesses, skills, MCP tools and streaming, and moving agents from answering questions to taking action.

  • Engineering leadership

    Hiring, growing engineers into senior and staff roles, and setting technical strategy across teams.

  • 0 → 1 product

    Two-time co-founder and CTO: one exit, and one company bootstrapped to $1M in its first year.

  • Platform & reliability

    Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance.

Consulting

Building with AI? Let's talk it through.