Michael Pillsbury
Lead Platform Engineer
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Pillsbury is a Lead Platform Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating resilient, web-scale SaaS systems from monolith migrations to containerized microservice platforms. He blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership—establishing conventions, reusable libraries, and CI/CD platforms that accelerate teams and reduce operational cost. His background spans development, QA, and ops across mobile, web, and healthcare EHR systems, informed by an M.S. in Software Engineering and a B.S. with an HCI emphasis. Notably, he has repeatedly driven organization-wide standards and training programs, turning tribal knowledge into repeatable practices. Based in Minneapolis, he brings a pragmatic focus on observability, automation, and developer experience while still shipping internal tools and asset delivery systems.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Software Engineering, M.S. Software Engineering at University of Minnesota
German
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Github Skills (21)
mls9
inventory-management7
statistics7
rails7
inventory-management-system7
nginx7
endpoint6
xcode6
vim6
health6
xvim6
open-source5
provisioning4
health-check4
ruby-on-rails4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mpillsbury/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:30 pushes in 5 years 1 month
mpillsbury/sigh
Apr 2015 - Oct 2020
Because you would rather spend your time building stuff than fighting provisioning
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
provisioningwould-you-ratherfighting
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