Mikkel Laursen
Principal Software Development Engineer at Poppulo
Midlothian, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMikkel Laursen is a Principal Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping web and enterprise applications, currently leading front-end architecture and delivery at Poppulo. He maintains the popular react-md Material Design component library and has deep practical expertise migrating and consolidating front-end monorepos, introducing TypeScript, and building shared component libraries to improve performance and developer experience. His background spans full-stack work—from JEE enterprise services and database design to modern React ecosystems, automated testing, and analytics integration. A hands-on mentor and team lead, he regularly runs open discussions, champions accessibility and testability, and coaches developers in best practices. Dual Danish and U.S. citizenship and a track record of moving legacy apps to modern, testable architectures reveal both international perspective and a penchant for pragmatic modernization.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Radford University
English, Danish
Github Skills (47)
accessibility10
react-component-library10
javascript10
dropdown-menu10
material-components10
static-site-generator10
css10
sass10
typescript10
nextjs10
material-ui10
browser10
react-component10
material-design10
menu10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mlaursen/gulpfile-example
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
mlaursen/react-md-redux
Nov 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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