Michael Plikk
Technical Lead at Oslo Origo
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Plikk is a Technical Lead based in Oslo with 13 years of experience building backend systems, databases, and service architectures, and a long-standing passion for algorithms and computer science. He has progressed from hands-on developer roles to founding and CTO responsibilities and now leads cross-functional teams to deliver customer integrations and scalable products. Michael emphasizes team ownership and cross-platform collaboration to create respectful, high-performing environments where engineers thrive. He contributes to notable open-source Rust tooling—improving clippy lints to catch subtle errors—demonstrating attention to code quality and correctness. With academic roots in mathematics and computer science from the University of Oslo and a history of leadership in both startups and community organizations, he blends technical depth with pragmatic people-first leadership.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Oslo
Github Skills (6)
linting10
code-analysis10
rust10
testing9
rust-lang9
error-detection9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust-clippy
May 2018 - Sep 2018
A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 16 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Clippy linter for Rust. Their work involved implementing a new lint for `unimplemented!()`, renaming files, and modifying tests to accommodate the new lint. They also added a lint to identify mistyped suffixes in literals and refined the existing code by reducing the number of `split_at` calls. The user's contributions focused on improving code quality and catching potential errors within the Rust codebase.
linterlintrustlangmistakes
mipli/ass-cli
Jan 2019 - Jul 2020
A small CLI tool for working with Aptoma Smooth Storage
Contributions:8 releases, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 5 months
cli-toolsmoothstoragecli
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