Mikael Lindlof
Core Engineer Lead at Noah
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMikael Lindlof is a Core Engineer Lead based in London with 15 years of experience building distributed, scalable systems and a clear focus on decentralised finance and permissionless architectures. He combines hands-on backend expertise—from Kubernetes and microservices to payments and ERP—with leadership roles across startups and enterprise teams, currently driving core engineering at Noah. Mikael has contributed to notable open-source Bitcoin infrastructure (btcd), optimizing chain state initialization and expanding JSON-RPC capabilities, showing deep practical knowledge of blockchain internals. He cares about software longevity and elegance, aiming to align money with value through neutral technologies. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who pairs low-level performance improvements with product-minded systems design.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
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Github Skills (21)
json-rpc10
ropc10
drpc10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
rpc10
go10
procedures10
blockchain10
api-design9
database-management9
cryptography8
graphql6
amazon-dynamodb6
aws-cloudformation6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
btcsuite/btcd
May 2020 - Jun 2020
An alternative full node bitcoin implementation written in Go (golang)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mikael primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Bitcoin implementation. They focused on improving the efficiency of the chain state initialization process by optimizing database interactions. Additionally, the user added new JSON-RPC client commands for retrieving transaction statistics and block filters, expanding the API capabilities. They also implemented a new JSON-RPC command for signing messages.
golangfull-nodebitcoin-nodebtcdcryptocurrency
lindlof/secret_rock_paper_scissors
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Rock paper scissors game secret contract for Secret Network
Contributions:1 release, 134 commits, 7 PRs in 2 months
scissorsrock-paper-scissors-gameethereumrockcontract
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