Karl Mikaelsson
System Developer at Ida Infront AB
Linköping, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Mikaelsson is a seasoned system developer based in Linköping, Sweden, with 16 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining reliable infrastructure and backend systems. He blends low-level C work and Python scripting with system administration, having kept production services — from file and print servers to CRM and email — running smoothly at Cendio AB and now Ida Infront AB. Karl contributes to open-source RDP tooling (notably rdesktop), where his improvements to audio, disk redirection and capability handling show a knack for deciphering protocol details that improve remote session fidelity. Comfortable across Makefiles, shell tooling and web stacks like Rails/Postgres, he pairs pragmatic troubleshooting with incremental engineering to deliver robust, production-ready solutions.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Software Development, Computer Science, Software Development at Linköping University
Swedish, English
Github Skills (6)
c1710
rdp10
c1110
network-protocol10
remote-desktop10
audio-processing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rdesktop/rdesktop
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
🚨 rdesktop is in need of a new maintainter. Please see the home page for more details. 🚨
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 43 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Karl primarily worked on the `rdesktop` project, focusing on improving the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) functionality. Their contributions include deciphering and implementing features related to the DR_CORE_CAPABILITY_RSP message, which involved adding constants and handling capabilities. They also made changes to disk redirection, printer, and sound functionality and improved the fast path. The user’s efforts appear to be centered around improving RDP support and efficiency, specifically improving the audio quality of remote sessions.
remote-desktopwindowsrdplinuxneed
cendio/thinlinc-ansible-modules
Sep 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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