Mikkel Hegnhøj
Senior Director at Akamai Technologies
Central Denmark Region
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Top SchoolMikkel Hegnhøj is a seasoned technology leader with over a decade of experience building cloud platforms and developer experiences, currently serving as Senior Director at Akamai after leading Product and Engineering at Fermyon Technologies. He has a strong Microsoft Azure background from multiple senior program and management roles at Microsoft, where he focused on application platform tooling and cloud adoption. Comfortable scaling remote-first teams, Mikkel blends product strategy with hands-on technical leadership to drive the next wave of cloud computing. Based in Central Denmark, he pairs formal studies in economics and organizational studies with a practical track record that includes board experience and early-career technical management. A detail that stands out: he once ran a small café, reflecting an entrepreneurial streak and hands-on approach to leadership.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
HD Economics / Organizational Studies, HD Economics / Organizational Studies at Aarhus UniversityHimmelbjergegnens Natur-og idrætsefterskoleThisted Gymnasium
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Github Skills (153)
spin10
command-line-interface10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
azure-cli10
azure-pipelines10
fabric10
serverless10
starship10
oh-my-zsh10
charts10
editor10
serverless-applications10
helm10
golang10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
mikkelhegn/workshops
Aug 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year
Azure-Samples/reactjs-webapp-functions
Nov 2021 - Jun 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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