Summary
Mikael Amborn is a pragmatic full stack engineer based in Sweden with over 15 years in software development and 11 years of continuous professional experience across startups and large platforms. He has deep backend expertise in Java and Scala, modernized legacy systems (JPMS, Gradle, Azure DevOps) and built payment- and fraud-related services at Klarna and Spotify, as well as consumer-facing full stack products using React/React Native and Ruby on Rails. Currently he helps make second-hand clothing easy to sell while also running his consultancy, bringing a blend of hands-on implementation, architecture work and customer-facing product thinking. Trained in computer science with focused studies in data science, reactive and functional programming, he often bridges domain, delivery and infrastructure concerns to ship secure, maintainable systems. An understated strength is his track record of taking monolithic apps to modular, testable architectures that speed future feature development.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Functional programming with Clojure, Single course, Functional programming with Clojure, Single course at MOOC at University of Helsingki
Fast Track to Scala, Fast Track to Scala at Typesafe
Principles of Reactive Programming using Scala, Principles of Reactive Programming using Scala at coursera.org
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Linköping University
Domain Driven Design, Domain Driven Design at Citerus
English, Swedish