Alex Sundström
Senior Engineer at Spotify
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Sundström is a Senior Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale backend and perimeter systems, currently shaping the infrastructure that connects Spotify clients to backend services. Based in Stockholm, he blends SRE, DevOps and backend engineering to keep communication-critical systems reliable and performant. His background includes a machine learning master's from KTH and early work on game tooling, reflecting a mix of rigorous academic training and hands-on product engineering. Known for pragmatic, infrastructure-first thinking, he moved from software engineer to senior engineer at Spotify while also consulting through SolidX, demonstrating an ability to translate deep systems knowledge into practical client-facing solutions. Quietly, he’s spent years focused on the often-overlooked perimeter layer that materially affects user experience across millions of devices.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Machine Learning, Master's degree, Machine Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
spring-boot5
spring5
rest5
api5
rest-api5
java4
logging2
mesos1
logstash1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alexandersundstrom/rest
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
A Spring Boot REST API
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 1 month
spring-bootapispringrestrest-api
alexandersundstrom/fruktkorg-app
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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