Summary
Mikael Bärlund is a Senior Consultant based in Helsinki with over a decade of experience designing and developing software, and six years in senior roles driving product and service delivery. He specializes in full-stack Java and TypeScript development, cloud-native AWS deployments, and DevOps automation using tools like Maven/Gradle, Docker, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, SonarCloud and PostgreSQL/Oracle. At Wunderdog he maintains and rewrites general-purpose services for the Finnish National Agency for Education, combining feature development with infrastructure and ops responsibilities. Previously he spent many years building laboratory information systems and internal product infrastructure at Software Point, where he also developed Docker images and maintained CI/CD ecosystems. His background in telecommunications engineering and an early usability study at CERN lend him a pragmatic, research-informed approach to solving complex user and system problems. Known for bridging customer-facing requirements and reliable backend systems, he favors maintainable architectures that scale in production.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Telecommunications Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Telecommunications Engineering at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan / Helsinki University of Technology
English, Finnish, Swedish, German