Tomi Mickelsson is a pragmatic full-stack engineer and tech founder with over two decades of professional experience and a 14-year track record as a hands-on freelancer and startup CTO. Currently leading cloud engineering at an IoT smart-grid startup, he designs end-to-end systems—from device comms and big-data pipelines to responsive frontends and PWA mobile apps—while keeping costs and complexity low. He excels at rapid MVP delivery and mentoring teams, blending deep Python backend skills with modern frontend, streaming, and cloud infra expertise. A practical decision-maker who favors build-vs-buy tradeoffs, he moves fast without sacrificing maintainability and has repeatedly taken small teams from prototype to production. Based in Helsinki, he keeps an entrepreneurial lens and publishes work at tomicloud.com.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Msc, Electrical & software engineering, Msc, Electrical & software engineering at Aalto University
Chrome extension that reports page size, cache usage, network requests, load time
Contributions:4 releases, 15 commits, 4 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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