Mike Blackburn
Senior Solutions Architect at Midwire Technologies
Meridian, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolMike Blackburn is a Senior Solutions Architect with decades of hands-on software engineering experience and a proven track record modernizing systems and delivering maintainable, high-performance solutions for clients like GE, Sprint, Fidelity Life and VF Corp. A two-time telecommunications patent holder and former owner of consulting firms, he combines strategic technology evaluation with practical cloud migrations and legacy transformation to reduce costs and improve scalability. Mike leads and mentors engineering teams, champions robust testing and best practices, and has consistently aligned IT delivery to business objectives across enterprise engagements. Based in Meridian, Idaho, he prefers contract (1099/W2) work and brings a rare blend of entrepreneurial consulting experience and long-tenured technical depth dating back to 1990.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Central Missouri
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Github Skills (125)
windows10
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internationalization10
linux10
custom-error-pages10
census-data10
google-translate10
translator10
csv10
exception-handler10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
midwire/free_zipcode_data
Apr 2018 - Nov 2021
Free US and world-wide postal codes in SQLite and CSV format
Contributions:1 review, 11 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 7 months
csvsqlitezipcodecensus-datacounties
midwire/goat_leads
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
The GOAT Leads
Contributions:44 PRs, 120 pushes, 48 branches in 1 month
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