Summary
Mike D'ambrogia is a seasoned IT management professional and hands-on engineer with over three decades of cross-industry software development experience, currently consulting from Houston. He blends leadership—having managed budgets up to $1.2M and teams of ten—with deep technical chops in scalable backend systems, ETL, AWS serverless architectures, Python, PHP, Snowflake, and real-time data platforms. As co-founder and CEO of a threat-intelligence startup he built horizontally scalable infrastructure to ingest petabytes and millions of events per second, and has a track record of refactoring fragile apps into high-performance REST APIs. Comfortable as both an “Army of One” developer and a team lead, he repeatedly delivers on-time, on-budget solutions that span data migration, GIS, POS, and SSO integrations. A former Navy avionics electrician and ex-motorcycle road racer, he brings disciplined, practical problem-solving and a taste for adventurous, real-world engineering.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Columbia College, California
Solar Energy Electronic Engineering, Solar Energy Electronic Engineering at Cabrillo College