Anders Björklund is a veteran B2B transformation leader and CEO of Zooma with 25+ years turning marketing from a cost centre into a measurable growth engine for international organisations. He combines strategic commercial leadership with hands-on technical fluency—contributing to notable open-source projects like Podman, distcc and ccache—bridging brand, demand and engineering teams to drive aligned, data-driven outcomes. Anders is skilled at connecting strategy to execution, breaking internal silos, and building repeatable frameworks that replace vanity metrics with predictable revenue impact. Based in Gothenburg, he pairs advisory and board roles across industry and philanthropy with operational leadership at Zooma and startups he founded. An experienced coach and mentor with a background that spans from IBM apprenticeship to professional sports coaching, he brings an unusual blend of discipline, human-centred leadership and systems-thinking. He favors fast, outcome-oriented conversations that prioritize potential and clarity over procedure.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Upper secondary School, 3 years, Business Administration, Upper secondary School, 3 years, Business Administration at Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet
School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg
Bachelor's degree, Market Economy, Bachelor's degree, Market Economy at IHM Business School
Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:507 reviews, 94 commits, 280 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Anders made significant contributions to the Lima VM project, focusing on features, infrastructure, and packaging. They implemented the ability to start Lima instances from a URL, adding functionality for handling HTTP URLs. Furthermore, they improved the overall usability and functionality by adding details to the limactl list command, and made updates to package installations for various Linux distributions. Additionally, the user enhanced the codebase by addressing several issues related to file system mounts, and SSH setup configurations.
Contributions:23 commits, 12 PRs, 9 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Anders primarily focused on enhancing the Ganglia monitoring core. They added support for new CPU metrics related to guest and nice time. Further contributions included fixing server definitions and documentation, and adding memory reporting features. The user also added support for building out-of-source and made code compatible with older compilers.
monitoringprometheus
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