Mike Friesen
Supervisor, Application Architecture & Development
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Friesen is a hands-on application architect and engineering leader with over 16 years of professional experience and a 20+ year history of building enterprise Java systems and migrating them to AWS. As Supervisor of Application Architecture & Development at Manitoba Blue Cross, he combines technical ownership of cloud migrations, IaC and containerized replatforming with mentorship and delivery governance across teams. An AWS Certified Solutions Architect, he has re-architected systems to leverage serverless patterns, Fargate, and automated pipelines (Terraform/CloudFormation, CodePipeline/CodeBuild) while ensuring security and performance. Mike also contributes to front-end open-source work, improving HTML5 drag-and-drop libraries, showing a practical appreciation for UX-level behaviors as well as backend scale. Colleagues rely on him for clear communication, meticulous design, and a pragmatic balance of leading large teams or shipping solo.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Engineering at University of Manitoba
Github Skills (6)
drag-and-drop10
javascript10
vanilla-javascript10
jscript8
testing8
documentation7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lukasoppermann/html5sortable
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
VanillaJS sortable lists and grids using native HTML5 drag and drop API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 12 PRs, 49 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the implementation and refinement of features related to sortable lists and grids using the HTML5 drag and drop API, as indicated by the repository description and topics. Their work focused on adding new functionalities like "acceptFrom" and "copy" options, as well as fixing issues related to event handling, particularly with the "sortstart", "sortstop", and "sortupdate" events. Code changes span documentation, core JavaScript logic, and test cases, demonstrating a strong understanding of the library's functionality.
apigridsjavascriptvanillajsdrag-and-drop
formkiq/formkiq-client-sdk-python
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Official FormKiQ Python Client
Contributions:6 releases, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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