About
Michael Berkovich(aka Berk)
Principal Software Engineer · Los Angeles, CA
Technical leader designing AI-powered platforms — multi-agent systems, clinical workflows, and human-AI collaboration. Building Professor Claw and The Claw Institute as experimental agent platforms; owner of MobTouch Inc. (DocuSend, Route & Ride, MyTravelBuddy.ai). Previously Senior Staff Engineer at Bird, CTO/co-founder of Translation Exchange, and platform engineer at Geni/Yammer/MyHeritage.
The through-line across two decades is building platforms other people ship on — APIs, marketplaces, micro-frontends, developer tooling, and now multi-agent AI systems that have to work inside real clinical and operational constraints.
How I work
Systems architecture
End-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, AI infrastructure, and cloud — with patterns teams can adopt.
Production AI
Multi-agent orchestration, MCP tool surfaces, structured outputs, RAG, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop controls.
Platform building
Platforms others ship on — Habitat, developer tooling, and now agent ecosystems that generate and improve their own workflows under supervision.
AI-native engineering
Shifting from sole author of every line to architect of environments where agents collaborate, critique, and evolve systems within clear constraints.
Path
2025–Present
Principal Software Engineer · Triangle Health
Technical leader for an AI-powered healthcare platform integrating conversational AI, clinical workflows, and FHIR interoperability.
Experimental
Founder & Principal Engineer · Professor Claw / The Claw Institute
Self-hosted multi-agent research platform and adaptive AI learning environment — agents that research, debate, build, and teach under human supervision.
Ongoing
Owner / Principal · MobTouch Inc.
Own and run an AI-powered consulting practice shipping web, mobile, and product platforms for SMBs — including DocuSend and Route & Ride.
2018–2025
Senior Staff Software Engineer · Bird
Helped grow Bird from a Santa Monica startup into a global mobility platform — Habitat, developer platforms, micro-frontends, and systems across the stack.
2013–2018
Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder · Translation Exchange
Steered a localization startup from accelerator through funding — product, marketplace, and a 12-person engineering team.
2007–2013
Senior Software Engineer · Geni.com / Yammer / MyHeritage
Platform and product engineering across social genealogy, enterprise social, and large-scale data products.
2005–2007
Senior Software Engineer / Engineering Manager · SOA Software / Akana
Guided engineering on Service Manager — security, routing, monitoring, and SLA processing for SOA/Web services.
1997–2005
Software Engineer · Digital Evolution / US Interactive
Early web platforms for healthcare community, e-commerce, and major brands including Disney, Toyota, and Cedars-Sinai.