I'm Mikael Vesavuori and I've been busy.

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Currently, I am a consulting Product Manager within the IAM and Observability domains for evroc while also building Starlite (a better version of Backstage, if you will) and Pikku, the micro-scaler cloud that you own.

Before this, I was building Popcorn Cloud (an intent-first no-code platform) and working as Technical Standards Lead at Polestar, where I was 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-view 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 whenever I can. Some of my writing has been reposted via outlets like Dear Architects, Off-by-none, Architecture Weekly, Better Programming, UX Collective, Prototypr, and AI Advances. My other work has been covered in a number of media, such as Göteborgs-Posten and Level.

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