Michael Barnathan

Michael Barnathan is the Director of Applied Machine Learning at Cash App, a mobile payment company owned by Block (formerly Square). At Cash App, Barnathan manages a team of 2 Directors and 11 Engineering Managers, overseeing a globally distributed Machine Learning Engineering team of around 150 people. Before his current role, Barnathan spent 3 years leading the Machine Learning Engineering team at Cash App, growing it from 30 to a globally distributed team. Barnathan has over a decade of experience in software engineering and machine learning, with previous roles at companies like OpenStore.He holds a PhD and has been recognized for his work, with an article about his "thinking big" approach featured in Monmouth Magazine.