My name is Mikael Vesavuori, and I'm a human with an artist's soul (MFA background), a techie's love of bits and bytes (lifetime builder), and the hunger of being a three-time founder. I make software, write about software, and share opinions about software and the industry.

Currently, I am co-founding [UNNAMED COMPANY], where we are building Popcorn Cloud and Starlite: Popcorn Cloud enables the creation and operation of sustainable and scalable software deployed to the cloud in a simple, abstracted way that even non-developers can perform; Starlite helps makers of software understand their software estate and how it's aligning to expectations.

Before this, I was Technical Standards Lead at Polestar, a member of the Architecture & Standards team, led the Software Engineers Competence Group for two years, and acted as Developer Advocate in the Open Source Program Office. I also initiated and continuously supported the work of the Platform Services and Developer Experience teams.

In the rear mirror, I was the Lead Cloud Architect at Humblebee and Lead Frontend Developer at Sogeti. Long before my most recent business venture, I was an entrepreneur, having started Being in 2015 and Propaganda Bureau in 2009. I am also forever indebted to all that I learned while teaching artistic and technical subjects at both university and high school levels, early in my professional career.

Much of what I have learned and have come to know and/or believe I share with others.

Throughout the years, I've given talks, presentations, and lectures at both private, paid events, and places such as Cygni Tech Summit, the University of California, CloudNativeGbg, AWS User Group Göteborg, React Gothenburg Meetup, Världskulturmuseet, and Varbergs Konsthall.

I try to write when I can. Others seem to like what I have to say, so my writing has been reposted via outlets like Dear Architects, Off-by-none, Architecture Weekly, Better Programming, UX Collective, Prototypr, and AI Advances.

My motivation is really quite simple:

Design and technology should help solve hard problems in society and industry, as well as give people more room for the moments they love.

I'm fortunate to have worked with lots of great people, companies, and projects. Here's some of what I've done in my time: