Alexander Brandstedt
Senior Software Engineer at Infralium AB
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Brandstedt is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, backend systems and developer platforms across companies from startups to enterprises. He combines hands-on Golang and Kubernetes expertise with platform design—driving declarative, Git-centric provisioning using tools like Crossplane, Backstage and kOps, to improve testability, scalability and maintainability. As founder of Infralium and a repeat platform lead at companies including Volvo Cars, Bokio and Spotify, he reduces operational load through automation, observability and internal tooling. An active open-source contributor, he implemented and refactored template-driven cluster configuration, custom CA handling and SSH support in the widely used kops project. Based in Stockholm, he blogs about infrastructure and brings a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach that balances R&D experimentation with production reliability.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Datanätteknik, Datanätteknik at Jönköping University2009 El-Data, 2009 El-Data at Tranemo Gymnasium
Swedish, English
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
templating10
kubernetes-pods10
apidoc9
api9
docker8
dockers8
kops7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kops
May 2017 - Feb 2018
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer & Backend Developer
Cloud Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 42 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the `kops` project by implementing and refactoring the `toolbox template` functionality. Their work involved creating a mechanism to generate `cluster.yaml` files from template and values files. The user also added a feature to create custom CA certificates and keypairs and added support for ssh credentials. Additionally, they made various code adjustments, including refactoring and updating API machinery, to improve the codebase and align with project standards.
containersgcphelmlinodeinstallation
mad01/mad01.github.io
Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:12 PRs, 109 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 1 month
python
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