Mikko Kokkonen
Head Of Development at CTG Consulting GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMikko Kokkonen is a seasoned technology leader and Head of Development based in Hamburg with 14+ years delivering cloud-native platforms and scalable engineering organisations across SaaS, fintech, AI, and e-commerce. He combines hands-on platform engineering expertise (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform/Terragrunt) with proven leadership in building and scaling multi-team departments, driving migrations from legacy infra to modern Kubernetes-based stacks. Known for pragmatic DevOps/SRE practices, he has cut cloud costs, sped up CI/CD by 75%, and led clean SOC2 Type II audit outcomes. Mikko excels at turning platform work into business velocity—introducing CD via feature flags, event-driven architectures, and KPI-driven observability that align engineering metrics to SLAs. His freelance engagements show a knack for rapid impact: founding platform teams, establishing SRE guilds, and enabling audit readiness in tight windows. A former founder and long-time practitioner in Ruby/Rails and infrastructure automation, he blends entrepreneurial curiosity with disciplined operational delivery.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of Tampere 1925-2018Business Adminstration, Business Adminstration at Sookmyung Women's University
Github Skills (50)
charts9
docker8
copying8
k8s8
aws-cloudformation8
helm8
aws8
rails-engines8
kubernetes8
analyzer8
linter7
locale7
ruby7
gitlab7
formatter7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
itsmycargo/docker-library
Nov 2019 - May 2021
Useful collection of Docker Images
Contributions:8 reviews, 18 PRs, 146 pushes in 1 year 5 months
pythondocker-imagedockerdocker-images
mikian/rubocop-junit-formatter
Jan 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 9 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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