Mikael Vesavuori
Co-Founder at Popcorn Cloud
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
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Top SchoolMikael Vesavuori is a three-time founder and cloud software architect blending an MFA’s creative sensibility with nine years of hands-on engineering and platform leadership. Currently co-founding Popcorn Cloud and Starlite, he focuses on making sustainable, scalable cloud software accessible even to non-developers while helping organizations map and align their software estates. Previously he set technical standards and cloud strategy at Polestar and led cloud architecture and developer experience efforts at Humblebee, pairing platform vision with developer advocacy. His background as a designer, teacher and artist informs a pragmatic yet aesthetic approach to tooling and UX—evident in projects like a zero-handoff design-to-code pipeline and headless CMS work. A regular speaker and writer whose essays have been widely reposted, he combines startup grit with cross-disciplinary thinking to simplify complex software problems. Based in Gothenburg, he collaborates with clients across automotive, consumer goods and cultural sectors to turn lofty design goals into production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Literature Culture and Digital Media, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Literature Culture and Digital Media at Blekinge Institute of TechnologyMaster of Fine Arts (MFA) Valand Academy, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Valand Academy at University of Gothenburg
Swedish, English, Finnish
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Github Skills (200)
styled-components10
dynamic-rendering10
newline10
react-components10
design-tokens10
figma10
figma-api10
prerendering10
extraction10
logger10
boilerplate10
devops10
react10
catalog9
seo9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mikaelvesavuori/slamax
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Calculates maximum composite SLA for a list of sequentially provided cloud services or your custom-defined services.
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 5 PRs in 8 months
maximumsarifcloud-servicessla-calculatordefined
mikaelvesavuori/better-apis-workshop
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Workshop and demo for improving API quality, stability, and observability.
Contributions:13 commits, 14 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 1 month
apiworkshopsecurityserverlessobservability
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