--- title: Mike Shaver joins Tailscale as VP of Engineering | daily.dev description: Tailscale has hired Mike Shaver as VP of Engineering. Shaver brings experience from Mozilla/Firefox, Facebook's mobile pivot, and Shopify. CEO Avery Pennarun... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mike-shaver-joins-tailscale-as-vp-of-engineering-f3x02knsw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Mike Shaver joins Tailscale as VP of Engineering | daily.dev og:description: Tailscale has hired Mike Shaver as VP of Engineering. Shaver brings experience from Mozilla/Firefox, Facebook's mobile pivot, and Shopify. CEO Avery Pennarun... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mike-shaver-joins-tailscale-as-vp-of-engineering-f3x02knsw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/F3x02Knsw.png og:image:alt: Mike Shaver joins Tailscale as VP of Engineering og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Mike Shaver joins Tailscale as VP of Engineering **[Tailscale](https://daily.dev/sources/tailscale)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Tailscale has hired Mike Shaver as VP of Engineering. Shaver brings experience from Mozilla/Firefox, Facebook's mobile pivot, and Shopify. CEO Avery Pennarun frames the hire as bringing structure to help good engineering decisions scale across teams without bureaucratic overhead. Shaver describes his philosophy as making engineering leadership work like a great platform — expanding what engineers can accomplish by creating clear decision-making, psychological safety, and removing process friction. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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