Summary
Mikael Lixenstrand is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building highly available, scalable telecommunication and IoT systems, now contributing at Cisco after the Working Group Two acquisition. He brings deep expertise in Erlang and distributed systems, with a track record at Ericsson of architecting platforms that supported tens of millions of simultaneous subscribers and achieved six nines reliability. Mikael’s background spans technical leadership and hands-on development across Erlang/Elixir, RabbitMQ, Riak, and Docker, applied to both product and systems testing for LTE and packet core components. Based in Jönköping County, Sweden, he pairs a Chalmers CS degree with practical experience transitioning teams and projects internationally, and a knack for turning complex telecom requirements into robust, production-grade software.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology
English, Swedish