Mikko Tikkanen
Founder at Metaplay
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolMikko Tikkanen is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 15 years of experience building companies, products, and development teams that have reached over 100 million users. He blends startup efficiency with enterprise-scale delivery, having led DevOps transformations, Nordic-wide tech alignment, and teams that improved delivery throughput by orders of magnitude. A serial co-founder and former CTO, he’s comfortable from UI/UX and interaction design through software architecture to hands-on engineering. Based in Tampere, Finland, he currently runs Fixer of the North while contributing as a senior engineer at Metaplay and maintaining long-term ties to ResponsiveAds. Notably, his background includes early open-source contribution to HTML5 Boilerplate and a track record of turning design-led thinking into scalable, production systems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts & Media, Interaction design, Bachelor of Arts & Media, Interaction design at Tampere University of Applied SciencesBachelor of Arts & Media, Interaction design, Bachelor of Arts & Media, Interaction design at FH JoanneumIT special vocational degree, Development of network applications, IT special vocational degree, Development of network applications at Ylä-Savo Adult Education Center
Finnish, English, Swedish, German
Stackoverflow
2,698reputation
185kreached
8answers
33questions
Github Skills (200)
visual-studio10
robust10
editor10
electron10
command-line-arguments10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
docker10
development-kit10
hierarchical10
microsoft10
gulp-plugin10
aws10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TampereJS/tamperejs.github.io
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:44 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
zonear/isotope-perfectmasonry
Nov 2012 - Jul 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 2 years 8 months
isotope
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