Summary
Mike Walker is a seasoned full-stack engineer and Sr. Technical Migrations Consultant with 14 years of experience designing and migrating PHP and WordPress platforms, alongside strong skills in MySQL, REST/GraphQL, JavaScript/React, and DevOps on AWS. Based in Vancouver, he blends hands-on development with infrastructure and Linux administration, regularly advising on performance, hosting, and serverless architectures for agencies and enterprise clients. His background includes leading technical efforts as the sole developer early at startups and architecting integrations with marketing and ERP systems like Klaviyo and Salesforce. At Pantheon he focuses on complex migrations and platform modernization, drawing on a long history of building CMS solutions, custom campaign sites, and eCommerce systems. Certified as a ScrumMaster and experienced in Shopify/Laravel/Symfony stacks, he brings pragmatic delivery and clear technical documentation to cross-functional teams. An unusually broad practitioner, he still pairs low-level hosting expertise with front-end frameworks to ensure migrations are both performant and maintainable.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Agile Software Development, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Agile Software Development at agile42
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of New Brunswick
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)