Mike Frey is a seasoned software leader with nearly two decades of experience designing web and database architectures and currently serves as Director of Software Engineering in Minneapolis. He blends hands-on expertise in Node.js, .NET/C#, and MS SQL Server with strategic leadership honed through progressive roles from developer to principal architect and director across companies like InVision and Total Expert. Mike has a practical background in building resilient, production-grade systems and contributed to the popular formidable library by adding JSON parsing support, showing a commitment to improving open-source tooling for real-world uploads and serverless scenarios. A BS in Business Computer Information Systems complements his technical depth with business-focused thinking, and his career trajectory reflects a knack for moving between deep technical work and team-level strategy.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Business Computer Information Systems, BS, Business Computer Information Systems at St. Cloud State University
The most used, flexible, fast and streaming parser for multipart form data. Supports uploading to serverless environments, AWS S3, Azure, GCP or the filesystem. Used in production.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on enhancing the `formidable` library, specifically implementing JSON parsing capabilities. They added a `JSONParser` class and integrated it into the `IncomingForm` class to handle JSON-encoded data. The user also addressed a bug that caused errors to throw and created an example demonstrating JSON POST requests. These changes demonstrate their contribution to expanding the library's data parsing capabilities.
Contributions:68 commits, 18 pushes, 1 tag in 5 years 1 month
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