Dr. Michael is the founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Education Ecosystem. Inc. (previously Livecoding.tv). Education Ecosystem (LEDU) is a project-based learning platform that teaches students how to build real products in areas such as programming, game development, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data science, and blockchain. Students on LiveEdu use LEDU tokens (https://educationecosystem.com/) to buy subscriptions to watch projects, download projects and ask experts questions.

Dr. Michael holds a PhD in Finance and is a self-taught engineer who likes Python, Django, Sencha Touch, and video streaming. He has professional work experience in high-paced environments at Fortune 500 companies like Amazon and General Electric as well as tech startups like Photobucket, Rebate Networks, Lashou and Kolektiva. Before that, he founded the e-Commerce start-up Kyuda.