Michael Gibbons
Senior Backend Developer at PIVOT | Shopify Plus Agency Partner
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Gibbons is a Senior Backend Developer with nine years of experience building high-impact Shopify Plus e-commerce platforms and custom apps, combining practical engineering with a strong analytical background in physics and math. He specializes in Node.js and TypeScript backends, checkout extensibility, webhooks, cron jobs, and tooling like Prisma and BullMQ, and has deployed systems across AWS, DigitalOcean, Heroku, and Vercel. At agency scale he's delivered multi-million-dollar storefronts, led small teams, and independently shipped certified Shopify solutions under tight deadlines. His prior research in astrophysics—where he analyzed large UV and X-ray datasets—informs a data-driven approach to performance and reliability. Michael is particularly skilled at turning complex integrations into maintainable, production-ready services and building internal tooling that accelerates delivery.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at Humboldt State University
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelGibbons-Physics/hello-world
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
MichaelGibbons-Physics/BriteCore
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
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