Miska Kaipiainen
VP Engineering, Strategy & Open Source Software
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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RockstarMiska Kaipiainen is a seasoned cloud-native engineering leader and founder with 12 years of hands-on experience building developer-focused infrastructure and open-source projects. As VP Engineering, Strategy & Open Source Software at Mirantis and creator of Lens and k0s, he blends product strategy with deep engineering execution to simplify Kubernetes and container tooling for developers. He has a strong backend pedigree demonstrated by contributions to Kontena, where he improved CLI and server components for service and grid management. Based in Helsinki, Miska pairs entrepreneurial drive with pragmatic delivery, favoring developer experience and operability in distributed systems. Colleagues know him for shipping concrete open-source solutions that turn complex orchestration problems into approachable tooling.
12 years of coding experience
English, Finnish
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Github Skills (14)
server-side10
server10
ruby10
api-design9
dockers9
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
docker9
containerization8
cloud-computing8
elasticsearch6
fluentd6
git4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kontena/kontena
Mar 2015 - Jul 2017
The developer friendly container and micro services platform. Works on any cloud, easy to setup, simple to use.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 14 PRs, 60 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Miska primarily contributed to the backend logic and configuration of the Kontena platform, focusing on the `cli`, `server` components. They made updates to service management commands, specifically for updating and creating grids and services. The user also updated copyright notices, and made changes in the `server.rb` file to update the tagline.
microservicescontainersdockerrubydevops
miskun/miskun.github.io
Jul 2018 - Apr 2025
The miskun.com website
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 9 months
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