Anders Eknert
Open Source & Developer Relations
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAnders Eknert is an Open Source and Developer Relations leader based in Stockholm with eight years of professional software experience and a track record of blending hands‑on engineering with people and process leadership. He has moved from full‑stack and systems development into developer advocacy and management roles at companies like Styra and now Apple, specializing in JVM ecosystems (Java, Kotlin, Clojure, Groovy) while remaining pragmatic with scripting tools such as Python and shell. A frequent contributor to the Open Policy Agent ecosystem, Anders has improved decision logging, REST clients, CI pipelines and Kubernetes integrations—work that demonstrates both deep backend troubleshooting and practical automation skills. He excels at translating technical problems into developer‑friendly solutions and building bridges between product, engineering and community, informed by a background that spans technical leadership, identity/security work, and policy advocacy.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Blekinge Institute of TechnologyTäby MediagymnasiumPolitical Science, Political Science at Stockholm UniversityDatabaser I, Databaser I at Luleå University of TechnologyStockholm Institute of Education
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (30)
opa10
kubernetes10
authorizations10
github-ci10
python10
testing10
policies10
cicd10
open-policy-agent10
go10
authorization10
kubernetes-pods10
rest-api10
githubaction-workflow10
json9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
open-policy-agent/contrib
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
Integrations, examples, and proof-of-concepts that are not part of OPA proper.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:49 reviews, 15 commits, 95 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Anders contributed significantly to the project's infrastructure and testing capabilities. They implemented JUnit report conversions for OPA test outputs and developed a Kubernetes API client for Rego. Furthermore, the user refactored the CI/CD pipeline, migrating from Travis CI to GitHub Actions and improved test support by introducing skipped tests. Additionally, the user added OpenAPI specifications to enable the development of an API.
contribopadeclarativeopen-policy-agentintegrations
open-policy-agent/opa
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:1332 reviews, 172 commits, 666 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Anders primarily contributed to improving the Open Policy Agent (OPA) decision logging and REST client features. Their work involved fixing bugs related to discarded logs on chunk upload failures, ensuring the flush of buffered decision logs on graceful shutdowns, and addressing issues around Unicode handling in built-in functions. Additionally, the user implemented and enhanced the REST client, adding functionality for OAuth2 client credentials and the ability to generate JWTs for authentication.
policycompliancedogepoliciescloud-native
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