Ken Friesen
Technical Lead at Equal Experts
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Friesen is a Technical Lead and architect with over a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems for public sector and enterprise clients. He specializes in JVM languages (Java, Scala) and web stacks, and has led major Agile teams to modernize high-traffic platforms—from HMRC’s transaction monitoring and fraud prevention on a Digital Tax Platform to Springer’s global scientific content rewrite. Comfortable across the full lifecycle, Ken blends hands-on development with DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices, having built cloud infrastructure and mobile apps in earlier roles. He has a track record of shipping pragmatic, user-focused solutions for regulated environments and held an SC security clearance through mid-2024. Based in London, he’s known for turning complex integration challenges into maintainable architectures that scale.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Maths, Physics, BA, Maths, Physics at Bethel College-North Newton
French
Github Skills (38)
client-library10
java9
password-encryption9
pepper9
api9
docker-java9
java-api9
docker8
docker-api8
scrypt8
cloud-platform8
api-client8
password-hash7
hash7
pbkdf26
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Crowdmix/docker-java
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
api-clientapidocker-javadockerjava
DigitalInnovation/concourse-git-bb-resource
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 1 day
commitsgit-repositorytracks
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