Ulrik Mikaelsson
Staff Engineer at Self-Employed
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolUlrik Mikaelsson is a Staff Engineer with 17 years of experience building high-performance, sustainable systems across media, networking, and platform companies, currently driving technical work at Spotify. He blends hands-on systems engineering with a strong design and maintenance mindset, emphasizing performance, version control discipline, and standardized solutions. His background spans IPTV and streaming domains (Canal Digital, Magine) as well as systems and infrastructure roles (Bahnhof, .SE), and he has run a freelance practice since 2018. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers robust, maintainable approaches over trendy stacks—he explicitly avoids mainstream JavaScript/JVM/Microsoft roles. Based in Stockholm, he pairs deep operational experience with open-source sensibilities and a contagious enthusiasm for tooling and workflow quality. An often-understated strength is his insistence on reproducible development practices, which reduces friction in complex, long-lived systems.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Blekinge tekniska högskola
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (198)
python10
low-level10
integrations10
client-server10
rust-language10
rust-lang10
client-library10
sublime-text10
hashicorp10
pythonic10
audio10
scale10
vault10
golang10
compiler10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rawler/PyAV
Feb 2018 - Feb 2023
Pythonic bindings for FFmpeg.
Contributions:6 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 1 month
python310pythonpython-3-6matroskapython-3
rawler/ureq
Sep 2020 - Aug 2024
Minimal request library in rust.
Contributions:23 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 11 months
craterequest-librarytusrustrustlang
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