# Mikkel S.

> Technical Lead @ Solace | Expert in React, TypeScript, Node.js, and PostgreSQL

Location: Dana Point, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mikkel

Full stack engineer with 10+ years of experience specializing in technologies like React and TypeScript. Skilled in fostering strong cross-functional teamwork and building thoughtful, well-designed user experiences. Adept at boosting developer productivity through robust tooling, testing, and efficient project planning.

## Work Experience
### Technical Lead @ Solace
Jan 2026 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Solace
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026

### Co-Founder and Software Engineer @ TabletopTown
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | United States
- Prototyped an innovative, mobile tabletop role-playing game platform using Flutter and Firebase, launched a beta program that facilitated critical pre-launch feedback, and scaled the user base to 1,600+ users.
- Upgraded efficiency and boosted developer productivity via AWS migration of databases and cloud infrastructure, with Hasura GraphQL API. This strategy quickened feature builds, enhanced user access control, and strengthened confidence in updates.
- Boosted product resilience amid industry disruptions by focusing on a comprehensive solution, increasing the uniqueness of our minimum viable product, and minimizing launch delays.
- Implemented 100% automated deployment processes using Codemagic CI and incorporated comprehensive regression testing, enabling regular app releases with minimal production bugs.
- Streamlined engineering timelines using GitLab and Notion, enhancing delivery times and team communication, ensuring app releases consistently met company objectives.

### Senior Full-Stack Engineer II @ Sounding Board, Inc
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | United States
- Executed an extensive product redesign for Sounding Board’s award-winning HR tech platform, working with 30+ engineers, designers, and managers, securing $10M in ARR.
- Crafted rich-text note-taking functionality using React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Node.js, and MongoDB, and ensured high-quality code by maintaining test suites with Jest, Cypress, and Playwright, producing a consistent and powerful developer experience and reducing bug rates.
- Resolved 50+ customer support requests through data migrations and new feature development, significantly boosting customer satisfaction and enhancing sales capabilities.
- Enhanced customer data privacy by removing personally identifiable information from our database, enabling the company to secure SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

### Consultant II @ Neudesic
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Irvine, California, United States
- Optimized Choice Hotels' website performance for 8M+ daily users by transitioning to React and Redux, boosting user engagement. Also implemented server-side rendering, doubling page load speed.
- Pioneered point-of-sale mobile apps for Herbalife using React Native, achieving a successful launch within budget and enhancing user experience for their 50,000+ users.
- Collaborated with back-end engineers to enhance REST APIs, fueling intricate data-driven applications. This led to superior user experiences with minimal latency.
- Reinforced coding standards by writing unit tests in Jest, enabling rapid feature development with minimal bugs.

### Front End Web Developer @ Experts Exchange
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Luis Obispo, California
- Mastered HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to improve the Experts Exchange website with innovative features, enhancing the user experience for 10,000+ users and thereby increasing efficiency.
- Redesigned user profile page to enable users to display professional skills, boost personal brand influence, and explore freelance work through Experts Exchange's products, significantly increasing company revenue.
- Constructed a platform linking users with seasoned engineers for immediate coding help, boosting revenue growth, broadening the user base, and adding new product verticals.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Communication
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mikkelsandberg
- Website: https://mikkelsandberg.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/mikkelsandberg

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Last updated: 2026-03-22