Jeremy Friesen
Server Architect at Starform
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Friesen is a Server Architect in Seattle with 17 years of experience designing and hardening backend and multiplayer game servers across startups and large studios. He’s led and scaled server teams at The Pokémon Company International and shipped foundational multiplayer infrastructure at companies like PlayFab and Big Fish Games, blending hands-on engineering with team leadership. A pragmatic refactorer and tidy coder, Jeremy contributes to notable open-source Ruby projects such as Hanami and Forem, improving clarity, tests, and performance-critical SQL logic. He co-founded game studios and explored product-market fit firsthand, giving him both entrepreneurial grit and a practical sense for what shipping games and services requires. Outside work he’s a lover of spreadsheets and books and describes himself as an “adept debugger” and conjurer of analogies—traits that show up in how he simplifies complex systems for teams.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer engineering, Masters Computer engineering at Case Western Reserve UniversityMarin Academy
Github Skills (16)
hanami10
ruby10
ruby-application10
entity-framework10
refactoring10
api10
web-application10
sql10
repository-pattern10
database9
postgresql9
persistence9
databases9
test-driven-design8
code-documentation8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1071 reviews, 263 commits, 663 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily worked on refactoring and improving the internal structure of the backend code. They named "magic numbers" to improve clarity and readability and extracted shared logic in order to reduce duplication of effort. The user also implemented a new SQL JOIN and added a cached seed for the random number generator to help improve feed performance.
reactrailsrubyempoweringfeedback
hanami/model
Apr 2014 - May 2015
Ruby persistence framework with entities and repositories
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jeremy contributed to the Hanami Model framework by addressing typos, improving documentation, and refining tests. Their changes included fixing minor grammatical errors, updating the entity documentation to better reflect the framework's intended behavior, and modifying tests for greater accuracy. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the code to improve readability and clarity, ensuring the code adheres to the project's stylistic conventions.
rubyhanamipersistencepersistence-frameworkpersistence-layer
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