Mike Schroepfer is the Chief Technology Officer at Facebook. He leads the development of the technology and teams that enable Facebook to connect billions of people around the world and make breakthroughs in fields like artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Before Facebook, Mike was Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla Corporation. He led the global and open product development process behind Firefox. Prior to that he was a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, which acquired his company, CenterRun. He began his career working at startups including a digital effects company where he developed software used in major motion pictures. Mike holds a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.