Mikael Suvi
Chief Technology Officer at Miniclip
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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SeniorMikael Suvi is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Lisbon with 12 years of experience building highly scalable, mission-critical services across gaming and communications. He progressed from backend server engineering at Skype to founding mobile game studio Candycane Apps and now leads technology at Miniclip, combining deep systems architecture knowledge with product-driven delivery. A hands-on engineer, he contributes to notable open-source cloud tooling—adding AWS service support to Terraform's AWS provider and extending Erlang AWS libraries for Kinesis and DynamoDB—showing an uncommon blend of low-level protocol work and cloud integrations. Known for shipping reliable real-time systems and game infrastructure, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and practical execution to large-scale distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, Estonian, Russian, Finnish
Github Skills (11)
terraformer10
amazon-kinesis10
go10
api10
erlang10
aws10
amazon-web-services10
apidoc10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
openapi7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
erlcloud/erlcloud
Jan 2014 - Feb 2016
AWS APIs library for Erlang (Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, DDB, ELB and etc)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Mikael contributed significantly to the backend functionality of the erlcloud library, adding support for Amazon Kinesis and DynamoDB (DDB2) services. Their work involved creating new modules and functions to interact with these AWS services, including API calls for stream management and index support. Additionally, the user implemented test cases to validate the functionality of the global secondary index features. The commits suggest a focus on extending and improving the library's AWS integration capabilities.
amazon-ec2awserlang
hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
The AWS Provider enables Terraform to manage AWS resources.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Mikael implemented the creation of resources related to Amazon Q Business, specifically adding a new service package for Amazon Q Business within the AWS provider. Their work involved modifying core files to integrate the new service. The commits also included the creation of an application resource and related functionalities.
awsterraformterraform-provider
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