Anton Agestam
Senior Software Engineer at Aiven
Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Agestam is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sweden with a strong focus on Site Reliability Engineering and distributed systems, currently operating large-scale Kafka fleets across multiple cloud providers at Aiven. He led Aiven’s KRaft upgrade and built complex orchestration and property-tested automation that raised reliability for thousands of services and nodes. Anton also implemented an async Python Apache Kafka binary-protocol library and a new efficient backup format for Kafka partitions, work that reduced implementation effort and improved operational trust. With a history of building event-driven microservices, identity services, and e-commerce platforms, he thrives in diverse teams and on-call incident response. He combines hands-on systems engineering with a habit of rigorous testing and performance tuning, and often tackles problems end-to-end from architecture to operator shifts. Notably, his Github persona hints at a pragmatic, slightly playful approach to proprietary forks while emphasizing practical tooling for correctness and automation.
3 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
VasaskolanGymnasie Teknik IT, Gymnasie Teknik IT at Lars KaggskolanDid not finish M.Sc. Industrial Design Engineering, Did not finish M.Sc. Industrial Design Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology
Swedish, French, English
Github Skills (89)
karapace10
perl10
avro10
kafka-consumer10
kafka-connect10
binary-serialization10
kafka10
apache10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
dotnet9
sink9
ruby9
python9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Aiven-Open/kio
Sep 2023 - Dec 2024
Python data types for the Apache Kafka® Protocol.
Contributions:5 releases, 69 reviews, 137 PRs in 1 year 3 months
binary-serializationkafkapython
aiven-anton/kafka
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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