Mic Neale is a Principal Engineer at Block, where he works on ai, including building out goose, the company’s open source AI platform. A co-founder of CloudBees and former open source architect at Red Hat, Mic built the early versions of the Drools inference engine and has spent over two decades at the intersection of developer tooling, distributed systems, and AI. With a background in electrical engineering from UNSW, he brings a pragmatic, builder-first perspective to how engineering teams adopt and deploy AI infrastructure at scale.