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Senior DevOps Engineer | Cloud Operations | AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Båstad, Sweden
Worldwide
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Amazon Web Services, 2019
Båstad, Sweden
Worldwide
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Amazon Web Services, 2019

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About me

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer/Architect/CTO. I like sailing, surfing, traveling and working!

Amazon Web ServicesAmazon CloudfrontAmazon Elastic Compute CloudCloud ComputingCloud EngineeringDevOpsSoftware ArchitectureSolution ArchitectureAWS LambdaInfrastructure as Code (IaC)AWS VPCCloudformationCloud Optimization
AWS Architecture & Cloud Operations 9+ years across the full AWS estate, with particular depth in serverless and event-driven design. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate. Production work across IAM, VPC, WAF, ACM, Route53, Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, CloudFront, DynamoDB, RDS, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, and Cost Explorer (30+ services).

Infrastructure as Code Deep hands-on with CloudFormation, AWS SAM, SST, and Serverless Framework. Terraform paradigm-familiar via declarative IaC fluency.

CI/CD & Automation Operated Jenkins as Telenor's primary CI/CD pipeline for the Digital Frontend Teams; also GitHub Actions and GitLab CI. End-to-end commit-to-production with automated testing.

Scripting & Languages Bash/Shell, Python, PowerShell, Node.js, JavaScript.

Networking & Security TCP/IP, DNS, VPC design, security groups, WAF, VPN, IAM. Formal cyber defence taskforce experience at PTS-overseen national critical infrastructure (Telenor).

Data & Linux/Unix Operations DynamoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, and relational databases on AWS. Linux/Unix daily ops (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux); macOS primary workstation.

AI-Assisted Engineering Production use of Claude Code for infrastructure and application development; LLM integration as a product capability in Thinkertags.

Languages

EnglishNative speakerFrenchNative speakerSwedishNative speaker

Project history

Technical Advisor

QleanAir Scandinavia
Advising on digital transformation supporting QleanAirs continued expansion and operational efficiency. QleanAir is a Swedish company with global markets in industrial clean-air solutions.

Consultant & Technical Advisor

Indoor Energy Living
Long-term technical advisor to Indoor Energy Living. The companys built-up digital strength contributed substantially to achieving 23% operating margins in FY 2024.

Founder

Thinkertags
Thinkertags designs and manufactures QR Code and NFC tags ready-to-use for retail and enterprise customers, with active operations in Germany, France, and the UK. Designed, built, and operate the entire system end-to-end on a highly scalable serverless AWS platform composed of 30+ services managed via CloudFormation. Implemented fully serverless, event-driven architecture with end-to-end CI/CD via GitHub Actions and pioneered AI-assisted engineering using Claude Code.

Consultant

Gustaf Partners
Independent consulting practice based in Bastad, Sweden. Long-term advisory and hands-on engineering engagements with QleanAir Scandinavia and Indoor Energy Living, alongside earlier multi-year engagements with larger organisations including Telenor and DeLaval.

Cloud Operations Lead

Telenor
Formalised and led the Cloud Operations function for a major telecommunications group serving millions of customers in Sweden. Took responsibility for the AWS infrastructure underpinning Telenors digital platform — Apps, Web, and APIs — handling millions of requests per day. Achieved 6 MSEK annual OPEX reduction through infrastructure optimisation while maintaining 99.9% availability. Played a key role in migrating millions of users to a new identity platform. Worked inside taskforces with CEO, CTO, and security teams in response to imminent threats to digital security. Designed and operated infrastructure on AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, VPC, S3, CloudFront, IAM, CloudWatch) and negotiated multi-million SEK vendor agreements.

CTO & Co-Founder

Tailored Connections
A SaaS platform for programmatic, personalised voice communications at scale, serving enterprise clients. Designed and built the entire system on AWS in a fully serverless architecture using Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFormation, S3, CloudFront, and CloudWatch. After roughly three years of operation the venture was wound down.

Solutions Architect

DeLaval
Global manufacturer of dairy farming equipment and IoT solutions with operations across 100+ markets. As a member of the flagship R&D team, helped architect core elements of the AWS infrastructure for next-generation IoT-enhanced products designed to scale to millions of customers worldwide. Designed and implemented serverless, event-driven, loosely-coupled services on AWS, and coordinated work with distributed teams in India and Poland.

Consultant & Founder of BrewBook

PositionEtt
Joined PositionEtt as a consultant working with mid-sized Swedish clients across industries, reporting directly to corporate leaders and delivering on technology strategy, systems design, and integrations. In parallel, founded and built BrewBook, an end-to-end business software for breweries covering production tracking, inventory, and financial reporting. Migrated BrewBook from on-premises to AWS (EC2, S3, SNS, Route53, CloudFront). The software was absorbed into PositionEtts portfolio.

Certificates

AWS Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services

2019

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