Summary
Mikus Vanags is a system developer based in Sundsvall, Sweden, combining nine years of hands-on web and app development with a decade-long background in design and typography. At Bonnier News he builds production web tools using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/React, Node.js and Python, bridging visual craft with engineering. Previously he led multidisciplinary design teams and delivered brand, product and interaction work across agencies and studios, which gives him a rare cross-disciplinary fluency in UX, visual systems and code. Curious about generative design, data visualization, computer vision and ML, he experiments at the intersection of aesthetics and algorithms. He maintains a public portfolio and project showcase that reflect a designer-developer mindset and attention to typographic detail. approachable at local meetups, he often blends creative strategy with pragmatic engineering to turn exploratory ideas into shipped products.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus, Graphic design, Erasmus, Graphic design at Penninghen
JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures, Computer Software Engineering, JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Graphic design, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Graphic design at Estonian academy of Arts
Master of Arts (MA), Industrial and Product Design, Master of Arts (MA), Industrial and Product Design at Art academy of Latvia
College, Furniture design, College, Furniture design at Rīgas dizaina un mākslas vidusskola
English, Latvian, Russian, Swedish