Mitchell Friedman
Senior Software Engineer at Hightouch
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMitchell Friedman is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and production-grade automation. Currently working on AI at Hightouch after his startup Whatis was acquired, he blends hands-on engineering with product-oriented leadership from his time as CTO. His background at Twilio and Deliveroo reflects deep SRE and platform expertise—service meshes, automated remediation, and cost-saving CI/CD systems built on Kubernetes and Garden. Mitchell is an active contributor to Garden (garden-io/garden), improving backend/DevOps workflows like image pulling, kaniko immutability checks, and caching to speed development and CI. He has a track record of replacing third-party CI with in-house solutions that cut costs by over 80% while improving reliability for hundreds of engineers. Known for navigating large codebases quickly (e.g., contributing to Mozilla) he favors pragmatic, observable, and automatable systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 86% Cumulative GPA, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 86% Cumulative GPA at University of GuelphBachelor of Computing, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing, Computer Science at Københavns Universitet
Github Skills (15)
kaniko10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
helm10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
developer-tools9
go9
testing-library8
testing8
teste8
ui-testing8
mstest8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
garden-io/garden
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Automation for Kubernetes development and testing. Spin up production-like environments for development, testing, and CI on demand. Use the same configuration and workflows at every step of the process. Speed up your builds and test runs via shared result caching
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 19 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Mitchell primarily contributed to the backend and DevOps aspects of the `garden-io/garden` repository, as evidenced by fixes related to error handling in CLI tasks and the implementation of a "pull-image" command. Their work also involved upgrading dependencies such as Helm and Kaniko, which suggests a focus on infrastructure and build processes. Further contributions include fixing kaniko immutability checks and caching git results.
developer-toolscontinuous-integrationtesting-toolsproductionkubernetes-development
mitchfriedman/dotfiles
Aug 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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