Michael Thiesen
Senior Software Engineer at Understory
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Thiesen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Vancouver with 13 years of experience building scalable web applications and cloud infrastructure. He has repeatedly taken early-stage codebases to production maturity, from being the second engineer at Canalyst—where he cut search latency by over 300% and led a migration from Django MPA to a GraphQL React SPA—to recent senior engineering roles at Fraction and Understory. Michael designs pragmatic backend systems (notably an interest-calculation engine with region-specific logic and daily ledger updates) and improves operational reliability through infrastructure work such as splitting CloudFormation stacks for zero-downtime deployments. He pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and RFC reviews that emphasize scalability, maintainability, and extensibility. Comfortable across Python, PostgreSQL, front-end SPAs, and AWS, he favors measurable performance gains and clear technical direction. His career shows a pattern of solving thorny data and deployment problems at growth-stage companies while helping teams level up.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc in Computer Science, BSc in Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, French
Stackoverflow
115reputation
25kreached
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Github Skills (149)
api-client10
autocomplete10
language-server-protocol10
vim-plugin10
spotify-api10
vim10
linter10
praw10
linting10
spotify10
playing10
api10
reddit10
text-editor10
checker10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
micthiesen/micthiesen.github.io
Nov 2014 - Jun 2020
Contributions:129 commits, 92 pushes, 6 issues in 5 years 8 months
react
micthiesen/reddit-poster
May 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:18 commits, 1 push in 9 months
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