Michael Wikberg
Coding Software Architect Tech Debt Hunter at Virta Ltd
Espoo, Finland
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Top SchoolMichael Wikberg is a pragmatic software architect and "tech debt hunter" with 13 years of professional experience and more than two decades of hands-on tinkering with technology. Based in Espoo, Finland, he bridges system integration and full-stack development with strong C# and Java expertise, plus solid database work (MSSQL/MySQL) and scripting/testing practice. He has led architecture and remediation efforts at Virta and Gofore, and earlier built integration-heavy services at F‑Secure, contributing concrete open-source fixes such as authentication and linking features to the widely used Jenkins Jira plugin. A Master of Science in Computer Science from Aalto University, he combines a systems-level view of modern IT with a pragmatic willingness to learn any new tool required to solve messy legacy problems.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (Technology), Computer science, Master of Science (Technology), Computer science at Aalto UniversityGymnasiet Grankulla samskolaKaramalmens skolaHagelstamska högstadiet
Swedish, Finnish, English
Github Skills (9)
javas10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
jira10
back-end-development10
java10
apidoc9
atlassian9
api9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/jira-plugin
May 2013 - Jun 2013
Jenkins jira plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Jenkins Jira plugin, implementing features related to authentication and linking. They added support for HTTP Basic Authentication, allowing for an alternative login method. Additionally, they implemented an alternative URL for Jira link annotations, offering more flexibility in how links are generated within the plugin. The user's work involved modifying core Java files to integrate these features, including adjustments to the JiraSite and JiraChangeLogAnnotator classes.
jenkinsjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-pluginjiraatlassian
milkboy/WME-ja
Mar 2013 - Jan 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 299 commits, 36 PRs in 9 years
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