Mick designs, builds, and is an evangelist for distributed systems, from data-driven backends using Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark, to enterprise Microservices platforms.

With 6 years experience at FINN.no building a Microservices platform, along with introducing data-driven solutions and architecture based on Cassandra, Mick has become an advocate for change towards microservices built upon modern data driven practices that introduce eventually consistent highly available solutions using Apache technologies like Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka.

Mick has always had a keen involvement in open source code, contributing to codebases along the way, and today a PMC Chair for Apache Tiles as well as being a DataStax MVP for Apache Cassandra.