Mike South
Software Engineering Manager at Ambra Health
McKinney, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMike South is a seasoned software engineering manager with 17 years of experience designing and shipping robust, cloud-native web applications and operational tooling. Currently leading a small team at Ambra Health, he combines hands-on development of REST services for medical imaging with pragmatic managerial practices that emphasize reliability and measurable process improvement. His background spans fintech, SaaS, and enterprise operations—at Discover he built a production-ready, CI/CD-driven analytics app on AWS and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and at Oracle/NetSuite he ran 24/7 site reliability and tools teams supporting hundreds of thousands of users. A longtime open-source and scripting practitioner (notably Perl and LAMP-era systems), he excels at automating tedious processes and turning manual workflows into auditable, database-backed solutions. Based in McKinney, Texas, he brings both systems-level thinking and a hands-on engineering mindset, mentoring teams while still contributing meaningful code to core products.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at Texas Tech UniversityBS, BS at Valdosta State UniversityPittsburg High School
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Github Skills (67)
perl10
dancer10
rewrite10
crud9
sqlalchemy9
cloud-foundry8
python8
infrastructure7
sql7
database7
foundry7
vim6
cli6
scale6
infrastructure-management6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
msouth/yapc_2015_dancer_class
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
msouth/Dancer2
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
dancernext-generationrewriteperl
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