Mikael Hedberg
Technical Director at Mojang Studios
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolMikael Hedberg is a seasoned technical leader with 13 years of experience in game and platform engineering, now serving as Technical Director for Mojang Studios in Stockholm after leading the Minecraft Java Platform as Tech Lead. He combines deep systems and gameplay engineering roots from a long tenure at Electronic Arts with product-scale platform work at Mojang, bridging hands-on development and strategic architecture. Mikael holds an MSc in Computer Science from KTH and is known for guiding cross-functional teams to ship robust, player-facing systems at scale. Beyond leadership, he brings a rare mix of AI, scripting, and engine-level experience that helps translate creative design into maintainable technical solutions.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Kungliga tekniska högskolan / KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Swedish, English, German
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Github Skills (68)
twitch10
minecraft10
fabric10
gcc9
forge9
lime9
parser9
replay9
optimization9
minecraft-forge9
dispatcher9
voting9
entropy9
chat8
java8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
slicedlime/examples
Jul 2020 - May 2022
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Contributions:61 commits, 62 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
slicedlime/MobDash
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:9 releases, 36 commits, 21 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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