Mike Thicke
Founder at Freelance
City of Kingston, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike 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 ColumbiaDoctor 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 (51)
markdown10
elasticpress10
xul10
wordpress10
buddypress10
wordpress-plugin10
obsidian10
activestate9
komodo-edit9
debugger-visualizer9
komodo-ide9
perl9
ide9
gutenberg9
xulrunner9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Epistemic-Technology/epistemic.technology
Jan 2025 - Sep 2025
The Epistemic Technology website
Contributions:2 PRs, 98 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
MESH-Research/knowledge-commons-wordpress
Mar 2023 - Jul 2026
The Knowledge Commons WordPress stack
Contributions:132 pushes, 2 branches, 5 comments in 3 years 4 months
wordpress
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