Mike Christensen
Staff Software Engineer at Hiscox
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorMike Christensen is a Staff Software Engineer based in Redmond with over two decades of professional experience building multi-tier web applications and server-side systems. He has led cloud migrations and platform modernization efforts—most recently guiding teams through Azure transitions and establishing microservice frameworks—while maintaining hands-on expertise across front-end, middleware, and database layers. Mike combines strong architecture instincts with a focus on testable, readable code and practical operational practices, having driven security-minded service architectures and common logging and service controller infrastructures. A proven people leader and bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, he has experience managing cross-functional teams of developers, DevOps, DBAs, and network specialists. He also founded KitchenPC, an open-source recipe search engine, reflecting an entrepreneurial streak and commitment to reusable, community-facing software.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
90,093reputation
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Github Skills (200)
bash10
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docker-desktop10
visual-studio10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
MikeChristensen/core
Aug 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:9 pushes in 8 years 7 months
database-adaptercore-enginedatabaseadapter
MikeChristensen/BBS
May 2016 - Nov 2019
Old Wildcat! BBS shareware written in wcCODE
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 6 months
stashsolidworkszeplinfilemakerbbs
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