Alexander Viken
Principal Cloud Architect at Mega Therion
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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SeniorAlexander Viken is a Cloud & DevOps Architect based in Oslo with 11 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native systems, currently leading the architecture for a new SaaS pension platform at Gabler Pensjonstjenester. He specializes in Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), Azure DevOps and .NET, and has a track record helping organisations migrate to secure, scalable cloud infrastructures as Principal Cloud Architect at Mega Therion and earlier roles at Microsoft. Alexander combines hands-on C# development with strategic enterprise architecture work, having shaped technology roadmaps and security principles for publishing and retail platforms at Gyldendal. Comfortable as a contractor and consultancy lead, he repeatedly bridges product, ops and development teams to turn complex requirements into automated, maintainable platforms. A longtime advocate for Microsoft technologies, he also brings experience in data services, microservices and Service Fabric—skills honed across startups and large enterprises. He’s pragmatic about trade-offs and skilled at translating governance and security needs into operable cloud patterns rather than abstract diagrams.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (39)
docker-engine9
microsoft-azure9
azure-kubernetes-service9
command-line8
intellisense8
azure-application-gateway8
console7
vscode-extension7
ingress7
windows7
resource-manager7
azure7
arm6
go6
azure-api-management6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
meanin/azure-apim-vsts
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
Full Azure API Management suite and more VSTS extension
Contributions:17 commits in 1 year 1 month
azure-api-management
AlexanderViken/azure-apim-vsts
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
Full Azure API Management suite and more VSTS extension
Contributions:11 PRs, 22 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
azure-api-management
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