Åke Persson

Age: 48
Nationality: Swedish
Email: hello@akepersson.com

BACKGROUND

I’m an autodidact Full Stack Developer and Systems Engineer driven by technological challenges who started programming at a very young age.
I worked in a variety of IT roles in different companies both private and government in Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands and USA.

EXPERIENCE

  • 2021/11-Present Utopia Music AG (Stockholm/Sweden)
    Senior Backend Go developer.
    Backend development in Go using gRPC, GraphQL and PostgreSQL.

  • 2019/08-2021/08 FUGA Music (Amsterdam/Netherlands)
    SRE Team Lead responsible for Support, Infrastructure and Operations.
    Maintain and support On-Premise, Cloud Infrastructure and CI/CD tooling around it using Docker, Terraform and Kubernetes.
    Development of automation and tooling in Go.

  • 2018/11–2019/06 Garden Leave
    Garden Leave during non-compete spent traveling in Europe and Asia.

  • 2016/02-2018/11 IMC Financial Markets (Chicago/USA)
    Developer / System Engineer with focus on micro-service tooling for Infrastructure automation written in Go.

  • 2013/06-2016/01 IMC Financial Markets (Amsterdam/Netherlands)
    Head of IT responsible for Support and Operations.
    Developer / System Engineer with focus on Infrastructure automation written in Ruby, Python and Go.

  • 2009/06–2013/05 IMC Financial Markets (Zug/Switzerland)
    System Engineer / Developer with focus on Infrastructure automation written in Perl, Ruby and Python.

  • 2006/12-2009/05 Bwin Games AB (Stockholm/Sweden)
    MySQL Database Administrator/ SAN Storage Specialist
    Largest online sports betting company in Europe. I worked for the online Poker division former Pokerroom.com.

  • 03/2006-12/2006 RedBridge AB, (Stockholm/ Sweden)
    Linux consultant
    RedBridge is a consultancy with focus on Linux.

  • 2001/10-2006/04 ProAct AB (Stockholm/Sweden)
    Support specialist/ Consultant
    Specialist for Backup software Legato Networker and Unix/ Linux consulting.

  • 2000/02–2001/10 Stockholm Vatten AB (Stockholm/Sweden)
    Application specialist
    Maintenance and development for an in-house Water Plant monitoring software built in C and TCL/TK using Solaris and MySQL as infrastructure.

  • 1997–2000/02 Support/ Unix Engineer, Stockholm Vatten AB (Stockholm/Sweden)

CIVIL SERVICE

  • 1995/11–1997/01 Support Technician
    Marinens Krigshögskola (Marine Warfare Academy)

EDUCATION

  • 1993-1995 Civil Economy
    Thomas Gymnasiet

SKILLS

LANGUAGES

Swedish Native
English Native

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Go Expert (recent)
JavaScript/ Angular Intermediate (recent)
HTML/ CSS/ SCSS/ Bootstrap Intermediate (recent)
Bash Expert (recent)
Python Intermediate
Perl Expert
C Intermediate

PLATFORMS

Linux Expert (recent)
Solaris Intermediate
FreeBSD Intermediate
Windows Intermediate

REFERENCES

Upon Request.

RESOURCES