Michael Friese
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarMichael Friese is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 13 years of experience building and operating production-grade systems across telecom and cloud platforms. He has progressed from software architect roles to systems engineering at Vodafone and now contributes at Microsoft, combining deep backend engineering with systems-level insight. An active open-source contributor, he implemented the ebpftop gadget for the notable inspektor-gadget project, surfacing eBPF runtime metrics and adding cumulative runtime/count features that show a knack for observability tooling. His work reflects strong ownership of low-level tracing components and a focus on actionable telemetry for Kubernetes and Linux hosts. Colleagues know him for translating complex infrastructure needs into pragmatic tooling and for bridging product requirements with engineering realities. He brings a pragmatic, systems-first perspective that often uncovers operational improvements before they become incidents.
13 years of coding experience
German, English, Dutch
Github Skills (4)
ebpf10
kubernetes-pods10
go10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
inspektor-gadget/inspektor-gadget
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Inspektor Gadget is a set of tools and framework for data collection and system inspection on Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts using eBPF
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1303 reviews, 89 commits, 165 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `ebpftop` gadget within the `inspektor-gadget` repository. They implemented the new `ebpftop` gadget, a tool for reporting eBPF runtime stats, and made associated changes in the `kubectl-gadget` directory. Furthermore, the user introduced and implemented features such as "cumulruntime" and "cumulruncount", indicating a focus on enhancing the tool's data collection and analysis capabilities. They also made significant changes in several source files, including `tracer.go` and `types.go`, indicating a good level of ownership.
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flyth/ts3soundboard-web
May 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
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