Mike Fisher
Verified Expert in Engineering
TypeScript Developer
Bellevue, WA, United States
Toptal member since December 11, 2020
Mike is passionate about creating great software that meets real business needs. He has extensive industry experience ranging from tiny startups to software giants like Microsoft. Mike understands the importance of planning, prioritizing, staying on schedule, and staying within budget. Almost no challenge is too difficult when it comes to his technical ability and problem-solving skills. Mike is a self-starter and will communicate effectively with the rest of your team.
Portfolio
Experience
- C# - 10 years
- JavaScript - 10 years
- C++ - 8 years
- Java - 6 years
- Azure - 6 years
- Bitcoin - 4 years
- TypeScript - 4 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 3 years
Preferred Environment
SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, .NET Core, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Linux, Windows
The most amazing...
...project I've built was LeadCrawl's back end, which managed millions of records efficiently with a RESTful API, SQL databases, and NoSQL data stores.
Work Experience
Founder
Free Digital Money
- Built a website for virtual currency marketing with millions of customers.
- Developed and designed a sophisticated back end written in C# for order processing, fraud detection, and integration with bitcoin and other currencies.
- Designed a web UI that integrates with offer partners written in ASP.NET MVC and Razor and hosted on Azure.
- Created a robust data layer to store hundreds of millions of records with a focus on performance and cost savings using a combination of SQL Server and Azure NoSQL Storage.
- Automated the development processes with Git source control, Azure DevOps continuous integration, and deployment to Azure with PowerShell scripts.
- Wore many hats from advertising to marketing, from business development to finances, and more.
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
- Handled the full-stack development on the Microsoft Store website with a focus on back-end features for storing product data from multiple sources, customizing storefronts, and providing granular security using C#, ASP.NET Core, Angular, and React.
- Developed MSDN.com back-end features for retrieving, processing, and storing documentation for hundreds of Microsoft products using C# and SQL Server. Helped migrate back-end systems to the cloud into Azure.
- Developed official Azure Storage client libraries for communicating with our RESTful APIs in various languages including C#, Java, C++, JavaScript, and Objective-C.
Back-end Software Engineer
LeadCrawl
- Developed marketing lead-generation web application with a small team using C#, ASP.NET MVC, and Azure.
- Designed a sophisticated web crawler to index the technologies, services, and trackers used on millions of websites at a rate of 20,000 webpages scanned per second.
- Designed an efficient NoSQL data storage system using high-performance and low-cost Azure Storage Tables and Azure Storage Blobs.
Full-stack Software Engineer
PeopleTool
- Developed a contact-management web application with a small team.
- Built the front end of the web application using JavaScript.
- Constructed the back end of the web application using Ruby and MySQL.
Founder
Real Estate Tycoon
- Created an online social game on the Facebook platform with millions of players.
- Developed a web application using ASP.NET that integrates with Facebook using their Graph API.
- Handled all business and technology tasks, including the front end, back end, database, graphics, advertising, marketing, and so on.
Software Engineer
Microsoft
- Developed features for the Microsoft Docs website (formerly MSDN and Technet) publishing system using C# and SQL Server.
- Built a data processing engine to submit and publish documentation content.
- Developed the Microsoft Account back-end features, client library, and internal tools using C#, web services, and SQL Server.
Experience
Free Digital Money
I designed a sophisticated back end written in C# for order processing, fraud detection, and integration with bitcoin and other currencies. I also designed a web UI that integrates with offer partners written in ASP.NET MVC and Razor and hosted on Azure. I then designed a robust data layer using SQL Server and Azure NoSQL Storage and set up Git source control, Azure DevOps continuous integration, and deployment to Azure with PowerShell scripts.
I wore many hats in this project, from advertising to marketing, business development to finances, and much more.
MultiPaint
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Champaign, IL, United States
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Azure Blob Storage API, REST APIs, Node.js, API Development, OpenGL, React, GDI(+), Windows GDI+
Tools
Git, Visual Studio, TFS, Slack, Asana, Jenkins, Apache Maven, Microsoft Teams
Languages
C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Visual Basic, XML, C++, Python, Transact-SQL (T-SQL), C, Objective-C, Ruby, SQL, Visual Basic 6 (VB6)
Frameworks
ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET Core MVC, ADO.NET, Electron, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Razor, Windows PowerShell, Angular, .NET Core
Platforms
Windows, Azure, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
Microsoft SQL Server, Azure Table Storage, Databases, Azure Tables, Azure Blobs, Azure SQL, Azure Queue Storage, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, Microservices
Other
API Integration, Teams, Software Engineering, Algorithms, Security, Bitcoin, DocumentDB, Facebook, WCF Web Services, Async.js, I/O, Web Scraping, Cryptography, Cryptocurrency APIs, Distributed Systems, Networking, Compilers, 3D Graphics, Operating Systems, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
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