Michael Lunøe
Staff Software Engineer at GitLab
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolMichael Lunøe is a Staff Software Engineer based in Copenhagen with 14 years of experience building scalable front-end systems and driving engineering excellence at companies like GitLab, Square, Paperspace, and D2iQ. He combines hands-on full-stack development—contributing UI and backend improvements to open-source projects such as the Mesosphere/Marathon repo—with people leadership, having hired and managed teams and served as a hiring manager across multiple quarters. At GitLab he has moved from Senior Engineer to Staff and previously shaped client-side architecture and API ownership as Principal Engineer at Paperspace. He is skilled at modernizing large legacy codebases, creating reusable developer tooling and UI component systems used by hundreds of engineers, and formalizing rigorous testing and delivery processes. Colleagues value him for balancing high engineering standards with practical shipping, and outside work he’s passionate about food, coffee and music, a detail that often surfaces in team culture and async collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Danmarks Tekniske UniversitetMaster of Science, Master of Science at Technical University of Denmark
Danish, English, German, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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angularjs-directive
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react-router
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
react10
web-application9
develop9
user-interface9
jquery9
angularjs-directive9
angularjs9
front-end-development9
application9
react-router9
jasmine6
android-button6
android6
css6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
d2iq-archive/marathon
May 2014 - Mar 2015
Deploy and manage containers (including Docker) on top of Apache Mesos at scale.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:398 commits, 28 PRs, 78 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to both the frontend and backend of the project, implementing UI components using JavaScript/React and modifying application definitions. The user's work included enhancements to app list sorting functionality and improving task status representation within the application's UI. They also made bug fixes and style changes to UI components, demonstrating a focus on improving user experience and functionality.
dockermesosdcos-orchestration-guilddcos
mesosphere/foosball
Jun 2015 - Apr 2017
A match tracking application
Contributions:20 PRs, 13 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year 9 months
reacttrackingmatch
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