Michael Cronin

Work

  1. Jun 2026 – Present

    San Francisco, CA

    Current

    Exa

    Software Engineer

    Exa is the search engine built for AI: a web-scale index and retrieval API that agents and LLM applications use to find and read the web.

  2. Oct 2025 – Mar 2026

    SaxeCap

    Forward Deployed Engineer

    SaxeCap is an AI private equity firm that buys traditional businesses and transforms them with AI. I worked directly with portfolio and partner companies to scope, build, and ship AI and automation systems into their operations.

  3. May 2024 – Aug 2025

    Toronto, ON

    Celestica

    Data Engineering Intern

    Data engineering for the Advanced Technology Solutions analytics team.

    • Redesigned and migrated the supply chain database schema, cutting refresh latency by 70% and enabling near real-time KPIs.
    • Built automated ETL pipelines in Python and JavaScript over Google APIs, making it routine to onboard new data sources across supply chain systems.
    • Developed and maintained 100+ PowerBI dashboards used by executives and by ML pilot programs.
  4. May 2023 – Aug 2023

    Kingston, ON

    Queen's University, Mathematics & Statistics

    Undergraduate Researcher

    NSERC-funded control theory research with Professor Kexue Zhang: sufficient conditions for input-to-state stability of nonlinear systems on time scales, proved without solving the underlying equations, and checked in MATLAB.