Mike Ball
Senior Software Engineer at Samsara
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Ball is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building front-end applications, backend systems, and cloud infrastructure automation, now focused on platform engineering and developer experience. Based in Philadelphia, he has held senior technical leadership roles at Comcast and Warner Bros. Discovery/HBO Max and currently contributes to Samsara’s engineering efforts. He blends hands-on full-stack development with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling, improving developer workflows at scale. An active open-source contributor, Mike has enhanced notable projects like Backstage and the Terraform Grafana provider, adding practical features and tests that improve observability and integrations. His background in anthropology gives him an unusual perspective on team dynamics and inclusive leadership, helping him build collaborative, high-performing teams. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem solving and steady delivery across complex, distributed systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Arts, Anthropology, Bachelors of Arts, Anthropology at James Madison University
Github Skills (27)
github-ci10
apidoc10
testing10
typescript10
grafana10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
terraformer10
backstage10
go10
api10
backbonejs10
typescript-types10
portal10
pagerduty10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/terraform-provider-grafana
Oct 2017 - Oct 2022
Terraform Grafana provider
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Mike contributed significantly to the development of the Terraform Grafana provider, adding support for AWS Cloudwatch data sources by implementing new attributes for `json_data` and `secure_json_data`. They also refactored existing code and added unit tests. Furthermore, the user improved documentation and added a new data source for organization preferences.
grafanaterraformterraform-provider
apache/trafficcontrol
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
Apache Traffic Control is an Open Source implementation of a Content Delivery Network
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 11 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Mike's contributions focused on updating import paths within the `apache/trafficcontrol` repository, specifically migrating from the `Comcast/traffic_control` to `apache/incubator-trafficcontrol`. These changes predominantly affected client-side code, including fixture files and test files. The user also added a new method and tests to the client, facilitating the creation of delivery services. This work directly involved modifying and extending the functionality of the client-side API interactions.
content-delivery-networktrafficcontrolapachecdncontentdelivery
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