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Senior Platform/DevOps & Software Engineer | Azure, AKS, .NET, Java, CI/CD | 25+ years
Sundsvall, Sweden
Only remote
Systems engineering studies, Mid Sweden University (1995-1997)About me
Independent consultant since 2011 through my own company, Sprezzatura AB. I like building platforms that make teams faster and systems more reliable, from Kubernetes clusters to CI pipelines and test strategies. I work remotely on Central European office hours.
Azure DevOpsJava (Programming Language)Test AutomationMicrosoft AzureCloud EngineeringContinuous DeliveryContinuous IntegrationDevOpsSonarQubePerformance Testing.NET CoreKubernetesBicepAzure AKSDocker
Platform/DevOps and software engineer with 25+ years of experience in software development, the last 15 as an independent consultant through my own company, Sprezzatura AB (Sweden). I work remotely and follow Central European office hours.
Azure & Kubernetes platform: At Biometria (2020-2025) I was responsible for the Azure platform and non-functional requirements for the core domain of the Swedish forest industry's nationwide system: an AKS cluster with around 60 microservices (DDD, CQRS, Saga, event-driven on Azure Service Bus). I designed the cluster for nationwide production load (zone-redundant node pools, KEDA and Prometheus-based autoscaling), built monitoring with Managed Prometheus, Grafana and Application Insights, and maintained infrastructure and release pipelines for eight environments as code with Bicep, PowerShell and Azure Pipelines. I also handled the platform's network and access security: VNets, NSGs and private endpoints, ingress via NGINX Ingress and App Gateway/WAF, and access control with Entra ID, Workload Identity and Azure/Kubernetes RBAC. I also co-built a C# release orchestration tool on the Azure DevOps REST API that deployed all services to all environments, and built the network for the load test agents (AKS, later Container Instances) with NAT Gateway to prevent SNAT port exhaustion.
FinOps: Reduced Azure costs by about 15% by resizing the platform to real load and optimizing test and development environments.
Performance testing & test automation: Built a C#/.NET load and regression testing tool based on NBomber that simulated the full business flow and drove the tuning of autoscaling and resource limits. As QA architect I defined the test automation strategy, introduced TDD and SonarQube quality gates, and mentored around 20 developers.
CI/CD: Helped build the CI platform at Försäkringskassan (Jenkins, Gradle, Git, SonarQube, Nexus), later rolled out to several hundred developers. Built one-click CI/CD pipelines with canary releases, and made deliveries at CSN about five times faster with Jenkins pipelines and Maven.
Software engineering: Many years of backend development in Java (Spring, Jakarta EE, IBM MQ, WebSphere, JBoss) and .NET (C#, ASP.NET Core) for Swedish government agencies and private companies. Background as UNIX/Linux administrator (firewalls, DNS, network services).
Key skills: Azure (AKS, Service Bus, Storage, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Entra ID, Workload Identity, App Gateway/WAF, Azure Monitor, VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, RBAC, NAT Gateway, Container Instances), Kubernetes, Helm, NGINX Ingress, KEDA, Prometheus, Grafana, Bicep, ARM, IaC, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Gradle, SonarQube, C#, .NET, Java, Python, PowerShell, Bash, TypeScript, NBomber, Playwright, Selenium, xUnit, JUnit, Spock, TDD, OWASP, Scrum, Kanban.
Languages: Swedish (native), English (fluent), German and Norwegian (basic).
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2011
Languages
GermanBasic knowledgeEnglishFluentNorwegianBasic knowledgeSwedishNative speaker
Project history
Platform and NFR architect for the Azure platform of Mätning, the core domain of VIOL 3, the Swedish forest industry's nationwide system: an AKS cluster with around 60 microservices (DDD, CQRS, Saga, event-driven on Azure Service Bus) developed by three teams.
- Designed the AKS cluster for nationwide production load: zone-redundant node pools, KEDA and Prometheus-based autoscaling, resource sizing.
- Built monitoring and alerting with Managed Prometheus, Grafana dashboards as code and Application Insights.
- Infrastructure and release pipelines for eight environments as code (Bicep, PowerShell, Azure Pipelines); production deployments and AKS upgrades.
- Built an NBomber-based load and regression testing tool in C#/.NET and tuned autoscaling and resource limits from the results.
- FinOps: reduced Azure costs by about 15%.
- Network and access security: VNets, NSGs and private endpoints, ingress via NGINX Ingress and App Gateway/WAF, and access control with Entra ID, Workload Identity and Azure/Kubernetes RBAC.
- First two years as QA architect: test automation strategy, TDD, SonarQube quality gates, mentoring around 20 developers; backend development in .NET.
Technologies: AKS, KEDA, Helm, Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Entra ID, Workload Identity, VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, NGINX Ingress, App Gateway/WAF, NAT Gateway, Container Instances, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Pipelines, Bicep, PowerShell, C#, .NET, SonarQube, NBomber
Developed a new system for driving licence loans, covering the entire flow from disbursement and repayment to write-off and the loan ledger.
- Backend services, message listeners and batch jobs with unit and integration tests.
- Automated system tests for the entire business flow (backend, batch, MQ, BPM) running continuously in Jenkins.
- Replaced an outdated delivery tool with Jenkins pipelines and Maven, making deliveries about five times faster; adopted by all teams in the project.
- Introduced TDD for around 30 developers and mentored them on Maven, Jenkins, JaCoCo and SonarQube.
Technologies: Java 8, Groovy, JEE 7 (JAX-WS, EJB, JPA, JMS, Batch), WAS Liberty/Traditional, IBM BPM, Maven, DB2, IBM MQ, Spock, JUnit, Arquillian, Jenkins, SonarQube
- Developed MIMO, the agency's first mobile app (Angular/Ionic), with its REST and SOAP services, and introduced automated functional tests with Appium and Selenium Grid.
- Developed the Register of Beneficial Owners (RVH): register, web interface, validation rules and functional tests.
- Development, maintenance and parallel automated UI tests for company registration on verksamt.se.
Technologies: Java 8, JEE 7 (JAX-WS, EJB, JPA, JMS, JSF), JBoss EAP, Oracle, IBM MQ, Angular, Ionic, TypeScript, Selenium/WebDriver, Appium, Selenium Grid, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube