Mark Southard
Engineering Manager at Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Southard is an Engineering Manager and seasoned front-end developer with 12 years of experience building WordPress sites and shipping HTML/CSS, PHP, and JavaScript solutions for small businesses. Currently leading engineering at Kit (formerly ConvertKit), he combines hands-on development with team leadership and a keen eye for product-ready interfaces. His background includes an MBA with a marketing concentration and practical expertise in email campaign management, branding, and project management—skills he leverages to align engineering efforts with customer and business needs. As a long-time freelance web developer, he brings entrepreneurial pragmatism and direct client experience to product teams. Based in Greensboro, NC, he’s equally comfortable coding theme customizations as he is shaping go-to-market messaging and UX-driven copy.
13 years of coding experience
MBA, MBA at UNC Charlotte Belk College of BusinessBS with Honors, BS with Honors at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (16)
stripe9
fluent-interface9
billing9
php8
laravel8
cms6
laravel-cashier6
recurly5
lumen4
mysql4
gravityforms4
lumen-framework3
marketing3
admin2
wpforms1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BaunCMS/Site
Jun 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 1 month
marketingmarketing-site
BaunCMS/Framework
Jul 2016 - Nov 2017
Framework for BaunCMS
Contributions:3 releases, 9 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 5 months
cmsphpmysql
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