Summary
Mike Pjura is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 12+ years building full-stack web systems and production infrastructure, currently shaping CMS and front-end services at Hearst Magazines. He blends front-end fluency (HTML/CSS/JS, Backbone/Angular) with backend and ops expertise (Node.js, Yii2/PHP, Docker, Redis, AWS, Ansible) and has designed microservices for cache invalidation and pub/sub using Docker, AWS SNS/SQS, and Lambda. Mike has experience leading small cross-functional teams, performing code reviews and coaching while shipping resilient, test-driven solutions with PHPUnit, Mocha, and Codeception. His background includes long-term freelance work and early hands-on mobile and enterprise-site builds, reflecting a pragmatic balance of creativity and critical thinking. Based in Signal Mountain, TN, he brings a systems-minded approach that favors composable services and infrastructure-as-code to accelerate delivery.
12 years of coding experience
Network Administration and Security, Computer Science, Network Administration and Security, Computer Science at Chubb Institute of Technology
Advanced Javascript, Advanced Javascript at NYU SCPS