Mikael Henriksson is a pragmatic CTO and freelance full-stack engineer with 15 years of experience designing and shipping highly scalable backend systems, particularly in Ruby/Rails and PostgreSQL. He currently leads engineering at Zazu, accelerating feature delivery in banking tech while also running his freelance practice, Zoolutions LLC. Mikael is a hands-on systems designer who has solved production reliability issues—evidenced by his notable open-source work on sidekiq-unique-jobs to prevent duplicate background jobs. He combines deep operational know-how (performance tuning, microservice extraction, CI/docker optimizations) with a knack for rapid product iteration and clean test-driven development. Based in Berlin, he balances pragmatic engineering with curiosity for new web technologies and a creative side as a musician and songwriter.
Contributions:140 releases, 68 reviews, 1007 commits in 10 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mikael appears to be a backend developer focused on the sidekiq-unique-jobs project. The commits primarily involved improvements to the functionality and reliability of the job locking and scheduling mechanisms. The contributions include creating a robust solution for jobs to prevent running concurrently, including specific handling of expiring the jobs in redis, and preventing jobs from re-running. The work resulted in fixes for production problems.
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Mikael Henriksson - Chief Technology Officer at Zazu