Kaspars Mickevics
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolKaspars Mickevics is a Principal Engineering Manager based in Estonia with 12+ years of experience leading resilient, mission-critical backend and DevOps teams at Microsoft. He architects and manages a trio of high-impact areas—tier0 .NET services for Skype and Teams, Cassandra cluster operations on Linux, and enterprise-compliant Linux platforms—while staying hands-on to keep technical skills sharp. Known for driving reliability, security hardening, and automation, he balances strategic architecture with pragmatic tool-building to reduce toil. His background spans from grassroots systems administration in large datacenters to managing global production services, giving him a rare end-to-end operational perspective. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful time management and knowledge-sharing that scales team capabilities.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science, Computer systems, Computer science, Computer systems at Riga Technical University Liepaja branch
Github Skills (83)
pylint10
intellisense10
jam9
linux9
shell9
powershell9
testing9
web-application9
asp-net-core9
asp-net9
netcore9
plugin9
command-line9
jupyter9
graph9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
fxlv/tempy
Jun 2015 - Sep 2022
Temperature measurments collection and display
Contributions:6 PRs, 99 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 4 months
temperature
fxlv/docs
Dec 2014 - Sep 2019
Contributions:254 commits, 227 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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