Mikael Norlen
Independent Owner at orbcoding
Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMikael Norlen is an independent systems engineer and full‑stack web developer with nine years of experience building Ruby on Rails and JavaScript applications, often deployed on Linux and Docker. He has shipped large real‑time data systems and e‑commerce platforms, plus handled system and developer operations end‑to‑end. A frequent contributor to the AlchemyCMS Rails project, he focuses on backend robustness and content/image handling improvements. His background spans frontend frameworks (Vue), geo‑data work, and even building and energy systems, reflecting a practical, cross‑disciplinary approach. Now freelancing from Italy, he combines hands‑on implementation with a systems engineering mindset to solve complex integration challenges.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Engineering, Sociotechnical Systems Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering, Sociotechnical Systems Engineering at Uppsala universitet
Github Skills (7)
ruby-rails10
content-management-system10
cms10
rails10
content-management10
ruby10
testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms
Feb 2020 - Oct 2020
Alchemy is the Open Source Rails CMS framework for the component based web that can be used as classic server side rendered or headless CMS.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 15 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mikael primarily contributed to the AlchemyCMS framework by addressing several issues related to the backend functionality. They fixed a constant conflict in user class names, improved the attachment conditions for menu items, and introduced data attributes for content editors. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to picture rendering, layout selection, and image handling within the CMS. Their work is focused on improving and maintaining core aspects of the AlchemyCMS application.
cmsalchemycmsadminrails-cmsalchemy-cms
orbcoding/orb-cli
Feb 2020 - Oct 2023
Contributions:89 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 8 months
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