Jon Friesen
Head Of Engineering at Rate Insights Canada
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolJon Friesen is a Head of Engineering with 12 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native, microservice-based systems that reliably support tens of thousands of daily users. He has progressed from software developer and test engineer roles to founding engineer and senior engineering positions at DigitalOcean, and now leads engineering at Qpoint while advising and co-founding early-stage ventures. Jon specializes in multi-cloud architectures, data acquisition and management, and building highly available, scalable platforms with a pragmatic focus on continuous improvement. He is committed to knowledge-sharing and team development, blending hands-on architecture with people leadership to accelerate product delivery. Based in Edmonton, he brings a startup founder’s mentality to enterprise problems, often surfacing practical innovations from operational experience.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Information Systems Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Computer Information Systems Computer Information Systems at University of the Fraser Valley
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (195)
nodejs-application10
go-api10
libbpf10
security10
scheduling10
docker-container10
django10
digitalocean10
linux10
api10
golang10
developer-tools10
anti-bot-detection10
kubernetes10
egress10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
jonfriesen/dotfiles
Feb 2020 - Jan 2026
Contributions:4 PRs, 108 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 11 months
jonfriesen/otp
May 2018 - Oct 2022
A Go implementation of RFC 4226 HOTP: An HMAC-Based One-Time Password Algorithm and RFC 6238: TOTP: Time-Based One-Time Password Algorithm
Contributions:15 commits, 14 PRs, 44 pushes in 4 years 5 months
gohmacone-time-passwordrfctotp
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