Mikkel Krautz
Senior Backend Engineer at PayProff
Esbjerg, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark
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Top SchoolMikkel Krautz is a Senior Backend Engineer with 21 years of experience, based in Esbjerg, Denmark, who blends deep systems knowledge with practical production delivery. He has long-term senior roles across multiple companies and holds an MSc in Computer Engineering from Aalborg Universitet Esbjerg. Mikkel contributes to notable open-source projects like Mumble, where he improved architecture, added key exchange support, enhanced RPC/logging, and fixed critical server–client communication bugs—work that highlights his focus on robust, low-latency protocols. He specializes in backend architecture, interoperability, and performance tuning across distributed systems. Colleagues rely on him for solving tricky protocol and compatibility issues that quietly keep services reliable at scale. His career shows a steady commitment to engineering depth and pragmatic problem solving rather than flashy front-end work.
21 years of coding experience
Master of Science in Engineering Computer Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering Computer Engineering at Aalborg Universitet Esbjerg
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
openssl10
protocol-buffers10
multithreading9
network-protocol9
protocols9
user-authentication8
authentication8
cryptography8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mumble-voip/mumble
Apr 2008 - Apr 2018
Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 2100 commits, 1173 PRs in 10 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mikkel focused on improving the Mumble project's architecture and feature set by adding support for key exchange mechanisms, implementing logging, and updating the RPC mechanism. They also addressed critical bugs in the server and client communication, particularly those related to the handling of data and packet types. Their work ensured compatibility with various systems and improved the performance of communication protocols.
voicechatquality-voice-chatvoipmacosvoice-chat
mumble-voip/mumblekit
Mar 2010 - Sep 2017
Contributions:363 commits, 18 PRs, 10 pushes in 7 years 7 months
objective-cmac-osmumble-clientmumblemac
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