Mikael Knutsson Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, SE

Stockholm, SE

Stockholm, SE

Building out a software platform for SaaS providers to build on top of. Our goal is to make it easy to build compliant and scalable applications that comply to European regulations.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE

Leading the team owning the L4 and L7 perimeter for all Spotify services. Initiating company-wide strategy initiatives, merging teams and trying to keep a bunch of senior engineers happy.

Mountain View, CA, US

• worked within a new team at Google called Reliability Red Team which is part of the Threats organisation with a charter to mitigate high impact and global... Threats. RRT focuses on research and experimentation to find.
• Helping design and develop a system for emergency response in overload situations
• Conducted data mining, experimentation and research for various flaws
• Mitigated issues that affects dozens of teams
• Made code changes in low level parts of the shared RPC code

Dublin 2, IE

• Cloud & DevopsPreviously Industrie&CoAn Australian consulting company with a focus on projects and product delivery for clients rather than staffing. Main body of clients are large institutions and banks, helping them.
• Produced diagrams and documentation to get a project past the internal security audit
• Worked on an extensive infrastructure as code project to fulfil security practises at a startup bank aiming to be granted a full-fledged banking licence in Hong Kong
• Helping a neobank establish an SRE practice with a focus on bringing and proving business value by the function
• Extensive performance work, including in-depth analysis and code changes to ensure client can pass performance watermarks in preparation for launch

Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, HK

• Hong Kong-based logistics startup for intra-city B2B deliveries. Has grown around 8x in order volume. Engineering team has grown from 30 to 110 engineers. Was responsible for being able to onboard engineers as fast as.
• Establish SRE and production engineer disciplines growing the infrastructure team to 9 people
• Long-term architecture and infrastructure planning to ensure reliability through the aggressive growth targets
• Tech debt and software performance management to help product owners with planning
• Software stack foundation development with focus on tiered caching and minimising “throw-away” work
• Open-source first approach within the engineering team

Hong Kong, HK

• One of the largest VPN providers with over 2000 servers around the world.
• Fully automated provisioning of disparate machine configurations to reduce time to market from “weeks” to “hours” for newly brought-on servers
• DMCA analysis and response system

Stockholm, SE

• One of the largest online-gaming companies in the world. Most notable game is Candy Crush. The Core Operations team is responsible for the data centre operations as well as the OS running on the bare-metal machines.
• Established specialist teams instead of one big generalist team to increase engineer engagement and ownership
• Push for modernisation of platform whilst maintaining the well-established reliability to increase productivity
• Load-balancer work with ISP level traffic (30Gbit sustained, 240Gbit uplink)
• Hardware vendor management

Stockholm, SE

• SaaS company providing a workforce management system for shift-work industries allowing people with shifts to swap shifts through a mobile-app rather than requiring direct manager interaction. Grew from 10 engineers to.
• Moved infrastructure from on-prem to AWS to improve reliability and removing “shock” cost when expanding capacity
• Established team and process to manage a CI/CD approach to software development to reduce failed deployments and increase customer satisfaction

Solna, SE

• One of the larger e-retailers in Sweden, grew from USD 150m to USD 300m in revenue whilst the engineering and IT support team remained at a headcount of 6.
• Trend-based, automated inventory and product management system to handle increase in product catalogue without increasing purchaser work
• Commodity hardware POS system provisioning
• Electrical and network planning for physical stores
• Hardware and software vendor management
• Performance and overall security posture

Satellite Beach, Florida, US

• Digitalization of a hotel and equipment rental firm
• Websites both frontend and backend work
• Linux-native software for commodity hardware in-store advertising displays