Mikael Brännström is a pragmatic CTO and architect with over 20 years of software engineering experience and more than a decade leading teams in mission-critical financial systems. He has designed and delivered ultra-low-latency, high-throughput exchange and clearing platforms (Elasticia, Cinnober) and led migrations to modern CI/CD, containerization and security-first development practices. At NGM he drove the Elasticia 2.0 rollout and built IT governance, security maturity and product roadmaps while scaling the engineering organization. Known for deep systems-level craftsmanship—Java performance tuning, custom serialization, off-heap storage—and for shifting teams from “hero” development to collaborative, review-driven culture. Based in Stockholm, he combines hands-on implementation experience with strategic leadership across trading, risk and large-data analytics.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
M Sc Computer Engineering, M Sc Computer Engineering at Linköping University
Contributions:79 commits, 4 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year
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Mikael Brännström - CTO at Nordic Growth Market (NGM)