Mikael Tabor
Founder at 5one8 AB
Klippan, Skåne, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolMikael Tabor is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling backend and distributed systems from research labs to commercial products. He has held senior engineering and CTO roles at companies like garden.io and VLM Health and spent nearly a decade driving backend architecture and teams at Hive Streaming. Mikael pairs deep academic training (PhD in Computer Science) with hands-on DevOps work—contributing to projects such as garden.io by improving build/deployment infrastructure, Docker images, and telemetry for Kubernetes-focused automation. Based in Klippan, Sweden, he combines entrepreneurial instincts from founding startups with a track record of shipping production-grade, observable systems. Notably, he moves comfortably between low-level reliability work and product-facing leadership, making complex distributed workflows reliably reproducible for developers and CI.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Alléskolan, HallsbergDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinTohoku UniversityM.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Uppsala University
English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
developer-tools9
container9
alpine-linux8
testing-library8
testing8
teste8
ui-testing8
mstest8
go7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
garden-io/garden
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Automation for Kubernetes development and testing. Spin up production-like environments for development, testing, and CI on demand. Use the same configuration and workflows at every step of the process. Speed up your builds and test runs via shared result caching
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:75 reviews, 29 commits, 88 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Mikael contributed to the project by updating and maintaining the build and deployment infrastructure. They modified Dockerfiles, updated buildkit images, and bumped versions of dependencies. The user also added new cloud events with context to improve the logging of commands, ensuring more informative telemetry data. Additionally, the user made code changes to correctly include stderr outputs from commands returning an artifact.
developer-toolscontinuous-integrationtesting-toolsproductionkubernetes-development
hivestreaming/hive.js
May 2014 - Dec 2017
Hive.js is a browser-to-browser distributed cache for video
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 3 years 7 months
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