Mikke Schirén
Chief Technology Officer at Digitalist Open Cloud AB
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolMikke Schirén is a CTO based in Stockholm with over a decade of hands-on experience in open source, cloud-native operations and DevOps, having risen through roles at Digitalist from DevOps engineer to Chief Technology Officer. He combines deep PHP backend expertise—roots visible in long-term work with Drupal—with growing proficiency in Go and Kubernetes administration to drive resilient, production-grade architectures. A pragmatic maintainer and bug-fixer, he has contributed to the widely used Matomo analytics project, improving code quality and data handling while keeping privacy-first principles in focus. Unusually for a tech leader, he also studies creative writing, which informs clear technical communication and pragmatic documentation across teams.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Creative Writing, Creative Writing at Linnéuniversitetet
Stackoverflow
11reputation
399reached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (10)
debug10
php10
web-analytics10
analytics10
mysql9
code-formatting9
privacy8
git6
symfony6
yaml6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
matomo-org/matomo
May 2022 - May 2022
Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 commit, 15 PRs, 103 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Mikke primarily focused on code quality and bug fixes within the Matomo project. Their contributions included formatting timestamps for improved readability, correcting spelling errors, and fixing typos. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to generating visit dimensions and removing outdated browser compatibility meta tags.
analyticspiwikcollectmatomomysql
Digitalist-Open-Cloud/Matomo-Plugin-TrackerDomain
Nov 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:5 releases, 3 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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