Micheal Friesen
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Canada
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Top SchoolMicheal Friesen is a software engineer with eight years of experience, currently enhancing OneNote’s client-side sync and storage at Microsoft where he focuses on C++ asynchronous back-end code to boost reliability, performance, and reduce service costs. He has a strong distributed-systems and networking background from graduate research at Waterloo, where he built a code-offloading IoT framework emphasizing privacy and mandatory access control. Micheal is an active contributor to high-profile open-source projects such as microsoft/msquic, improving datapath implementations, integrating RIO support, and adding XDP DLL and multi-receive support to harden receive completion paths. Comfortable navigating large legacy codebases, he blends systems-level rigor with practical optimizations and a track record of shipping backend improvements in production. Based in Canada, he pairs academic depth in mathematics and computer science with hands-on industry impact.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of CalgaryMaster's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (11)
c1710
c-language10
cross-platform10
cprogramming-language10
c1110
quic10
network-programming10
rust9
html6
google-chrome6
forms6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/msquic
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Cross-platform, C implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol, exposed to C, C++, C# and Rust.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:348 reviews, 10 commits, 37 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Micheal primarily focused on improving the datapath implementation within the msquic repository. Their contributions involved refactoring code related to completion routines, and integrating RIO support. They made significant changes to the winuser platform, including the addition of multiple outstanding receives and addressing issues with receive completion paths. The changes also included adding xdp dll support.
securequiccppprotocolrust
microsoft/xdp-for-windows
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
XDP speeds up networking on Windows
Contributions:14 releases, 564 reviews, 208 commits in 1 year 6 months
windows-desktopwindowshyper-vnetworkinglatency
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