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Mike Schroepfer is the Director of Engineering at Facebook and a former Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla, where he headed up the engineering team responsible for Firefox browser.

Schroepfer, nicknamed Schrep, studied computing science at Stanford University. In his early career he worked with a digital effects software startup developing a software which has been used in several major motion pictures.

Schroepfer has also worked as a Chief Technology Officer of Sun Microsystem’s data centre automation division. He was responsible for the ambitious N1 project, which aimed to use virtualisation technology to simplify network environment.