Mikkel Hagen
QA Engineer at VMware
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorMikkel Hagen is a Senior Software Engineer and PhD in Computer Science based in Austin with two decades of experience across automation, networking, and hardware/software troubleshooting. He has led cross-functional teams of engineers, testers, and SREs to build and operate SaaS and cloud products, currently shaping SRE architecture for VMware Cloud on AWS at Broadcom. Deeply hands-on, he authors automation, detection and auto-remediation systems using Python, Java, Kubernetes, and AWS services while also serving in product-owner and scrum-master capacities. Mikkel has a strong quality-engineering footprint in open source—contributing test automation and CI/CD improvements to the prominent vSphere Integrated Containers project. His background spans both startup-grade system testing and enterprise-scale operations, combining research rigor from his PhD with pragmatic delivery. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex distributed-system failure modes into reliable, automated runbooks.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (19)
container10
docker10
testing10
vmware10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
virtualization10
robotframework10
automations10
test-automation10
scripting9
shell9
script9
sh9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vmware/vic
Jun 2016 - Jun 2018
vSphere Integrated Containers Engine is a container runtime for vSphere.
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer & DevOps Engineer
Test Automation Engineer & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 698 commits, 1308 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Mikkel's commits primarily focus on automating and expanding the integration test suite for the vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) project. Their contributions include the implementation of new tests, fixing existing test cases, and improving the test suite's organization and maintainability. The user also worked on improving the logging and debugging capabilities of the test environment, along with configuring the CI/CD pipeline for more robust testing.
vicvsphere-networksruntimevic-enginevirtualization
mhagen-vmware/vic
May 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 branches, 1 comment, 4 issues in 1 year 3 months
containersintegrateddockerkubernetescontainer
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