Backend & platforms
PHP / Laravel, Symfony, .NET / C#, Python. REST and GraphQL APIs, third-party integrations, queues and background jobs. SaaS platforms built from the ground up, plus WordPress / WooCommerce, Magento 2 and Umbraco.
Inspire Me · sole proprietorship · Denmark
Mikkel Bjørnmose Bundgaard
Developer·Creator·Maker
Around 15 years of backend and platform work — taking solutions from idea to stable production. When the screen goes dark, the 3D printer and the soldering iron take over: my own models in Fusion 360, my own PCBs in KiCad, running on servers I host myself.
- ~15years in the industry
- 2007Inspire Me founded
- PHP · .NETPython · Dart · Java
- Code + Steelsoftware and hardware
Three things I do well
Apps & product
Native Android in Java, native iOS in Objective-C, Flutter and Ionic / Angular — including a full hardware integration for a booking kiosk used in hotels and airports in Greenland, wiring a payment terminal, receipt printer and touch screen into one app.
Ops & the physical world
Linux servers, Docker, deployments, monitoring and my own shell-based release scripts — and beyond the rack: 3D models in Fusion 360, custom PCBs in KiCad, and embedded builds on Raspberry Pi and microcontrollers.
Featured project
Iacta
“Alea iacta est” — the die is cast.
A dice-strategy game where the dice aren't just how you move — they are your pieces. Invented by Thorleif Bundgaard in 2001 and brought to life digitally by me: roll two values, one decides how far a die travels, the other decides the face it must show when it lands.
- Solo play against a computer opponent at several difficulties
- Two players on one device, or online with resumable, asynchronous turns
- Elo stats, profiles and handicap — on a self-hosted PHP + MySQL backend
- English & Danish, light & dark, phone to desktop
- A 3D-printed physical set with custom dice and engraved stones
Free, no ads, no paywalls.
Projects from the workshop
Things I build for myself, my family and the fun of it — the same craft as the client work, just without anyone asking for it.
LeaBox
Hardware · Raspberry Pi
A 3D-printed RFID music player for kids. Drop in a printed cartridge with an NFC tag and the matching album plays — TFT display with album art, a volume knob, physical buttons, and a web admin panel for the library.
StlMaker
Android app · CAD
Touch-first 3D modelling on a phone. A deliberately stripped-down sketch-and-extrude workflow on the OCCT CAD kernel — extrude, cut, push/pull, fillet, chamfer — with STL export you can send straight to the printer.
Home Admin
Self-hosted · Home server
The admin panel for my own infrastructure. Monitors the Pi it runs on plus every Linux box, Windows machine and IoT device on the network — vhosts, SSL, databases, FTP users, scheduled backups and threshold alerts, all from the browser.
JSON Tool
Web · Free to use
A fast, privacy-friendly JSON validator, beautifier and tree viewer. Paste a broken blob, get the error pinpointed and the tree laid out - everything runs in the browser, so nothing you paste ever leaves your machine.
Try it at jsontool.app
No sign-up, no upload.
Pins
Android · Offline-first
Keep a link, a note or an image in seconds — and actually find it again later. Built to replace the habit of sending things to yourself on Messenger: just as effortless to add to, but with tags, full-text search and offline-first sync.
Claude Usage Sidebar
VS Code extension · Open source
Session usage, weekly limits and extra spend at a glance inside the editor - a Chrome extension feeding data locally through native messaging to a VS Code sidebar panel. MIT licensed, and the data never leaves your machine.
Source on GitHubMaking
Designed, printed, soldered
A good part of my week ends at the 3D printer with a model I drew myself in Fusion 360. Sometimes it's an enclosure for a board I laid out in KiCad; sometimes it's the board that exists because the enclosure needed it. A custom retro handheld with flex PCBs and a mechanical locking mechanism came out of exactly that loop.
I publish the models worth sharing on MakerWorld — free to download, print and remix.
- 013D modelling
Fusion 360 — parts designed for the printer, and fitment-verified before a single gram of filament.
- 02Electronics & PCB
Own boards in KiCad, including custom flex PCBs, then assembled and soldered by hand.
- 03Embedded
Raspberry Pi and microcontrollers — RFID, TFT screens, I2S audio, software SPI, systemd services.
- 04Self-hosting
Servers running at home on Pi and TrueNAS, keeping real operations experience sharp.
About
I'm a backend and platform developer with around fifteen years of hands-on experience across agency, SaaS and product development. I'm strong at taking a solution from idea to stable production, with a solid feel for architecture, integrations and the craftsmanship behind systems that keep working.
I write my solutions myself and make a point of keeping up with where the field is heading — which right now means using AI where it genuinely helps, on the terms of the team and the task, without compromising on the craft. Never as a replacement for understanding my own code.
Inspire Me is my sole proprietorship, running since 2007 alongside my employment. Over the years it has carried a journal system for the psychiatric sector, WordPress sites, Android apps — and everything on this page.
Say hello
Questions about a project on this page, an idea you want a second opinion on, or one of the 3D models — write to me. I answer in English or Danish.
info@inspireme.dk