Johan Mickos
Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJohan Mickos is a senior software engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and production-grade services across startups and large enterprises. He has shipped backend systems at Amazon and Flexport, helped launch Amazon Pharmacy with Go microservices and cross-service replication, and now works on distributed infrastructure at MongoDB. His background blends academic research in actor frameworks and Rust networking with hands-on cloud engineering (Docker, ECS, DynamoDB, Kinesis), giving him a rare combo of protocol-level understanding and operational pragmatism. Known for clean code and curiosity, he also brings a playful touch to projects through silly names and keeps sharp through trail running.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Software Engineering of Distributed Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Software Engineering of Distributed Systems at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering at Boston University
English, Swedish, French
Github Skills (46)
asynchronous10
networking10
rust10
xorg8
gnome8
terminal-emulator8
api-platform8
window-manager7
plugin7
lua7
postman7
awesomewm7
changeset5
batch-processing5
k8s5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
johanmickos/icq
Dec 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 7 years 4 months
johanmickos/stormy-haystack
Feb 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:140 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 8 months
consistentdistributed-systemsdatabasekey-value-storekey-value
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.