Michael Bernstein

I build AI products and the engineering teams that ship them. Currently I'm VP of AI Engineering at Markup AI, building agentic AI that actually works. My background spans leading engineering orgs at Gartner, Return Path, and Silvercar — from seed stage startup to public company.

I studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ohio State with a focus on AI and distributed systems, then earned an MBA at Illinois (Gies) because I want to shape what gets built, not just how.

I write here to think clearly in an age that makes it easy not to.