Mike Thicke - Founder at Freelance

Mike Thicke

Founder at Freelance

City of Kingston, New York, United States

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Mike Thicke is a software engineer and founder who blends nine years of production engineering with deep academic training in history and philosophy of science. He led DevOps and platform development for Knowledge Commons at Michigan State, operating a WordPress-based social network of 30,000+ users and driving its next-generation, federated redesign with ActivityPub. Comfortable across AWS (ECS, OpenSearch, EC2, Redis, Route 53), Go backends, and Python research code, he also maintains long-standing freelance WordPress expertise in themes, plugins, and site operations. A former university faculty member, Mike applies social epistemology to technical design—focusing on how collective knowledge processes should shape democratic online infrastructure. He combines scholarly attention to how people depend on others for knowledge with hands-on experience turning those ideas into resilient, user-facing systems.

9 years of coding experience

5 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy at The University of British Columbia

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at University of Toronto

Github Skills (63)

elasticpress10

wordpress10

buddypress10

wordpress-plugin10

activestate9

komodo-edit9

debugger-visualizer9

komodo-ide9

xul9

gutenberg9

xulrunner9

member9

weechat8

tcl8

perl8

Programming languages (7)

JavaCSSJavaScriptVuePHPHTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

MESH-Research/knowledge-commons-wordpress

Mar 2023 - Mar 2025

Contributions:114 pushes, 2 branches, 4 comments in 1 year 11 months

MESH-Research/commons-connect

Mar 2023 - Jan 2025

Contributions:3 PRs, 68 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months

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