Michael Fridman
Engineering Team Lead at Eyeviation
Old Toronto, Ontario, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Fridman is an engineering team lead with nine years of experience building and modernizing backend systems, currently leading engineering at Eyeviation. He has deep hands-on experience across microservices, ETL/ML pipelines, Kafka event orchestration, and cloud data stacks (Redshift, PostgreSQL, S3), and has moved teams forward as an early hire at Momentum Labs. Michael is a practical open-source contributor to notable Go projects—helping improve protocol buffer tooling, JWT libraries, and migration tooling—where he focused on security, maintainability, CI/CD, and core backend infrastructure. He combines a strong automation background in Python and Java with a track record of mentoring engineers and shipping reliable production services. Notably, he often tackles infra-level problems (audit logging, dependency upgrades, containerized integration tests) that make developer workflows and platform reliability measurably better.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science, Software Developer, B.Sc. Computer Science, Software Developer at tel-hai
Github Skills (27)
database-migrations10
go-modules10
protocol-buffers10
testing10
cicd10
go10
jwt10
golang10
database-migration10
grpc10
auth10
dockers9
security9
apidoc9
buf9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
pressly/goose
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
A database migration tool. Supports SQL migrations and Go functions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 210 reviews, 99 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on modernizing the project by integrating Go modules, updating dependencies, and setting up CI/CD pipelines. They restructured the project's dependencies to leverage Go modules, upgrading various supporting libraries. Furthermore, the user implemented automated workflows within the GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline, enabling the generation of binaries and releases upon new tag pushes. Lastly, the user also added support for running integration tests in dockerized environments.
sql-migrationsdatabase-migrationsschema-migrationsmigration-toolsqlite
golang-jwt/jwt
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Go implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 186 reviews, 12 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the core functionality of the Go implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT). Their work included adding Go module support, integrating static code analysis, and refactoring the command-line interface. The user also made changes to the token parsing, claims verification, and JSON encoding. This indicates a focus on improving the project's maintainability, security, and overall functionality.
golangjwt-gogojwtauth
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