Alexander Grimstad
Principal Cloud Engineer at Fortytwo
Rogaland, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Grimstad is a Principal Cloud Engineer based in Rogaland, Norway, with over 15 years of hands-on experience spanning technical support, platform development, and IT consulting, and eight years focused on cloud roles. He specializes in SRE practices, Kubernetes application operations and security, and guiding Azure cloud adoption and modernization for customers. At Amesto Fortytwo he advises on resilient platform design and runs production-critical app operations, drawing on prior leadership as Lead Architect at Itera and Cloud Architect at Basefarm. Comfortable toggling between architecture and implementation, he brings pragmatic, execution-focused guidance rather than pure theory. Known for blending deep operational craft with customer-facing advisory work, he often surfaces practical hardening and observability improvements that teams overlook. His background from early system administration and Joomla-driven municipal projects gives him a rare appreciation for both large-scale cloud platforms and the nitty-gritty of real-world deployments.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Microsoft Certified System Engineer, Nettverks- og systemadministrator, Microsoft Certified System Engineer, Nettverks- og systemadministrator at Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological Sciences
Github Skills (23)
docker8
golang8
tooling7
jenkins-pipeline7
jenkins6
sre6
go6
container6
ecosystem6
devops5
pipeline5
kubernetes4
openai4
nodejs4
java4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alegri90/amestofortytwo-blog
Dec 2022 - Apr 2023
Source for https://blog.amestofortytwo.com managed by Fortytwo employees
Contributions:15 pushes, 8 branches in 3 months
alegri90/azure-minecraft-docker
May 2022 - May 2022
Minecraft Server powered by Docker & Azure Container Instance
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
minecraftdocker-imagedockerazure-containerminecraft-server
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