Alexander Schussler
Technical Leader at Cisco
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Schussler is a technical leader with 14+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating distributed, fault-tolerant systems across payment, telecom and web industries. He has deep practical expertise in Erlang, Python, Java and a wide array of tooling and datastores (Riak, Mnesia, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, RabbitMQ) from work at Klarna and Cisco building horizontally scalable services. Trained in mathematics and self-taught from the Commodore 64 era through Amiga and UNIX, he brings a long-term curiosity for low-level detail and functional programming paradigms. Comfortable leading teams and projects, he pairs system-level thinking with pragmatic delivery methods like Kanban and Scrum. A longtime open-source advocate and *nix user, he values understanding the tools beneath production systems rather than treating them as black boxes. Outside work he channels precision and creativity into bouldering and oil/acrylic painting, a combination that echoes his mix of technical rigor and artistic curiosity.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Upplands-BrogymnasietMathematics and Computerology, Mathematics and Computerology at Stockholm University
Github Skills (41)
elementaryos9
clutter9
gnome8
pantheon8
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vala8
gitbook7
amiga7
gtk7
spotify7
erlang7
retrocomputing6
apple-music6
gtk-rs6
worker-pool6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alx242/www
Aug 2017 - Mar 2026
Contributions:11 pushes in 8 years 8 months
alx242/dot-files
Apr 2012 - Feb 2023
Contributions:383 commits, 343 pushes in 11 years
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