Mikael Bjerkeland
Principal Solutions Engineer at Splunk
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolMikael Bjerkeland is a Principal Solutions Engineer based in Oslo with 13 years of hands-on experience across networking, security, Linux operations, real-time audio/video streaming, and Splunk enterprise solutions. He has progressed through technical and customer-facing engineering roles at Splunk, where he built expertise in SIEM use cases and authored multiple Splunk apps and add-ons. Previously he led IT operations teams for critical infrastructure—covering OpenShift, BigIP, Cisco security stacks and MFA—and designed network and log-analysis solutions for enterprise clients. Comfortable bridging deep technical implementation with presales and customer enablement, Mikael brings both systems-level rigor and practical product integration skills. An uncommon strength is his background in VoIP and live streaming systems, which informs robust, real-time observability and troubleshooting approaches.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
IT - language logics and psychology Computer Science, IT - language logics and psychology Computer Science at University of Oslo
English, Norwegian, Spanish
Github Skills (36)
cybersecurity10
splunk10
cicd10
security10
cisco10
syslog7
test-suite6
openshift6
continuous-integration6
datasets6
devops5
paas5
go5
continuous-delivery5
firewall5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
inspired/TA-cisco_firepower
Mar 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
splunk/TA-microsoft-365-defender-advanced-hunting-add-on
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 4 reviews, 100 commits in 1 year 5 months
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