Mike S
Principal Architect at Arc XP
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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RockstarMike S is a Principal Architect with 13 years of professional experience designing and building secure, distributed systems and cloud infrastructure for high-scale publishers and enterprise platforms. He currently leads architecture at Arc XP after driving platform and reliability improvements as a Senior Technical Architect at The Washington Post. His background spans hands-on engineering, people leadership, and long-term platform stewardship across companies such as Cvent, ThinkGeek, and Human Kinetics, giving him a rare blend of operational pragmatism and systems design. Mike is comfortable moving between code, infra, and organizational strategy to deliver measurable reliability and security gains. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he combines a deep operational history with developer empathy—outside work he humorously identifies as “manchicken,” hinting at a playful, unconventional personality behind his technical rigor.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
jsonb10
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hubspot10
zeus10
browser10
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dynamodb10
ld-preload10
d110
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
manchicken/repository-wrapup
Nov 2022 - Nov 2024
This is a project intended to help us wrap up our projects after they're no longer useful.
Contributions:5 reviews, 14 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years
wraphygienesecurity-tools
manchicken/rabbitmq-c
Mar 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
rabbitmqamqp
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