John Frickson
Lead Software Engineer at Lumen Technologies
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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RockstarJohn Frickson is a seasoned Lead Software Engineer with over a decade of professional experience and a multi-decade career that began on mainframes and evolved into C/C++, Linux systems, and web and database architectures. He has repeatedly delivered ambitious projects solo or as a small team lead—building a bond accounting system in four years that others estimated at 15 man-years—and has deep hands-on expertise in Linux administration, SQL databases, and performance-focused C development. His background spans both infrastructure and application layers, from Sendmail/Postfix, LDAP and SAMBA to IIS extensions and real-time data importers, reflecting a rare full-stack systems perspective. Known for quickly diagnosing and resolving long-standing issues (e.g., dramatically reducing Nagios bug backlog), he combines pragmatic engineering with strong project estimation and documentation skills. Based in Minneapolis, he’s available for senior C/C++ roles or technical management positions and brings a history of independently shipping robust, auditable systems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (39)
sensu10
visualization10
nrpe10
charts10
nagios10
trend10
plugin10
svg10
data-visualization10
javascript9
monitoring9
python9
canvas9
agent9
typography8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jfrickson/git-testing
Apr 2017 - Jul 2022
Junk repo for testing out various things
Contributions:5 releases, 8 PRs, 28 pushes in 5 years 3 months
testingjunk
jfrickson/nagios-standards
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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