Mike Walker
Platform Architect
Boone, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Walker is a Platform Architect with two decades of hands-on experience designing and operating high-traffic, resilient systems across web, infrastructure, and data layers. He builds and automates production platforms using Python, Go, Ruby and a wide mix of databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, CouchDB) and has led zero-downtime migrations, ETL and observability efforts at scale. As founder of NapkinDrawing he created simulation and distributed matching systems, and as a lead developer he re-engineered cloud provisioning and metrics to support millions of daily hits while dramatically reducing incidents. He combines deep systems-level curiosity—from transistors to protocols—with pragmatic product focus, routinely writing bespoke tooling to close gaps in off-the-shelf stacks. Based in Boone, NC, he enjoys tackling thorny infrastructure problems and shipping reliable, measurable outcomes for complex legacy and modern platforms.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
George Mason University
Github Skills (57)
ssh10
network-configuration10
python10
automation10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
amqp-client9
cqrs9
metrics-server9
src9
snmp9
prometheus-exporter9
collectd9
redis-client9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
napkindrawing/nagios_schedule_check
Apr 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 4 tags in 4 years 6 months
napkindrawing/ipgp
Jul 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years 5 months
word-listipv4ipv6addressespgp
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