Johnny Halife

Johnny Halife is CTO and Partner at SOUTHWORKS, a global software development scaleup that partners with organizations to build and scale cloud-native solutions and AI-powered experiences across major hyperscalers. With over 20 years in software engineering and technology leadership, he leads high-impact projects in cloud migrations, multi-cloud strategies, data & AI pipelines, generative AI applications, and modern application development for enterprise clients including Microsoft, Warner Bros. Discovery, the NFL, and others. He is also co-founder and former CTO (2012–2017) of MURAL (mural.co), the San Francisco-based visual collaboration platform that achieved enterprise-wide adoption worldwide. Johnny is passionate about cloud innovation, AI transformation, design thinking, entrepreneurship, and mentoring the next generation of technical leaders."