Mikael Knutsson
Member Of Technical Staff at Lovable
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolMikael Knutsson is a seasoned engineering leader and hands-on SRE with 13 years of experience building reliable, high-performance infrastructure across startups and hyperscale companies. He has led and grown infrastructure teams through rapid scaling at Lalamove and shaped reliability strategy at Spotify and Google, where he worked on cross-product emergency response and low-level RPC fixes. As a founder he focused on secure, reliable software for European customers, and today continues practicing data-driven engineering to manage complexity, cost, and performance. Mikael combines deep operational know-how—from automated provisioning and CI/CD to tiered caching and performance tuning—with people-first leadership that helps senior engineers thrive. He also contributes to open source (notably improving multi-battery support in i3pystatus), reflecting a preference for practical, reusable solutions. Based in Stockholm, he blends consulting, startup and platform experience to turn complex requirements into auditable, production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Student Degree, Natural Sciences, 17.62/20, Student Degree, Natural Sciences, 17.62/20 at Västerviks gymnasium
English, Swedish
Github Skills (7)
management10
python10
stat10
slstatus10
i310
power-management10
configparser9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
enkore/i3pystatus
May 2015 - May 2015
A complete replacement for i3status
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Mikael primarily focused on enhancing the battery status functionality of the i3pystatus module. Their contributions included adding support for multiple batteries and providing an "ALL" battery_ident value. They also corrected a typo and refactored some code related to battery information. The user's work added features and improved the clarity and robustness of the battery status reporting within the i3pystatus project.
i3statuspythonreplacementi3bari3
lalamove/helm-elasticsearch
Nov 2017 - May 2019
An Elasticsearch cluster on top of Kubernetes, made easier, with Helm.
Contributions:67 commits, 29 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year 6 months
helmhelmfilehelm-chartsk8skubernetes
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