Summary
Michael Xian is a freelance web developer with nine years of experience building full-stack solutions and a Computer Science degree from UBC. He has shipped production front-end features and operational tooling at AWS—designing a ticket-resolution UI, instrumentation, testing frameworks, and onboarding processes—and has prior co-op experience delivering end-to-end services at Hootsuite and Global Relay. Comfortable across cloud, container, and networking domains, he has coached teammates on AWS VPC/Route53 and streamlined customer onboarding and CI/CD flows. Currently designing a client-facing site for a small business with a 50+ client base, he pairs pragmatic UX with scalable infrastructure. Early exposure to programming through game development fuels his collaborative, product-focused approach to engineering. Based in North Vancouver, he blends startup-style agility with enterprise-grade operational rigor.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of British Columbia