Mikael Sand
CTO Co-Founder at Infinify / InfiniteWhiteboard.com
Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland
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Top SchoolMikael Sand is a Finnish CTO and serial founder with 12 years of engineering leadership, currently scaling real-time collaboration and vector-graphics tooling as Co-Founder & CTO of Seaber and creator of InfiniteWhiteboard. He brings deep full-stack expertise—from mobile apps to databases and graphics—grounded in a Master's in Computer Science and hands-on research experience in formal languages, modeling and optimization. Mikael has a track record of shipping robust production systems for diverse domains (e-voting, health services, banking risk tools, and shipping logistics) and has led both product and research teams. An active open-source maintainer, he contributes to prominent projects like react-native-svg and has improved stability in the well-known Paper.js vector library, reflecting a focus on correctness and developer experience. Colleagues describe him as a practical systems thinker who blends academic rigor with entrepreneurial drive to turn complex algorithms into usable products.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Åbo Akademi UniversityVocational Qualification Business Information Technology, Vocational Qualification Business Information Technology at Vaasan ammattiopistoBoost TurkuMatriculation Examination Curriculum for the upper secondary schools in Finland, Matriculation Examination Curriculum for the upper secondary schools in Finland at Vasa svenska aftonläroverk
Swedish, English, Finnish, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
html5-canvas10
javascript10
testing10
vector-graphics9
accessibility6
android-ndk6
ios6
svg6
android6
react-native6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
paperjs/paper.js
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting – Scriptographer ported to JavaScript and the browser, using HTML5 Canvas. Created by @lehni & @puckey
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer / QA Engineer
Front-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:5 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Mikael primarily focused on improving the codebase of the vector graphics library, Paper.js. They fixed issues related to the async loading of PaperScript and attribute method calls within PaperScope. The user also addressed code indentation issues and contributed by writing and implementing a fix for a failing test related to strokeBounds on paths. This indicates a focus on ensuring the correctness and stability of the library.
scriptingbrowserarmycanvasjavascript
msand/apollo-client
Jul 2017 - Aug 2024
:rocket: A fully-featured, production ready caching GraphQL client for every server or UI framework
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 2 months
graphql-clientui-frameworkproduction-readycachingrocket
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