Axel Arnold is a technology leader with eight years of focused experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure and AI initiatives, currently serving as Head of Artificial Intelligence in Madrid. He progressed from hands-on backend and DevOps roles to senior leadership at Scalefast—where he moved from DevOps to VP of Infrastructure and Head of SRE—demonstrating a rare blend of architecture, observability, and platform engineering expertise. Axel has led platform and observability teams across fast-moving companies, consistently translating complex operational challenges into reliable, scalable systems. Known for rapid learning and a taste for hard problems, he pairs strategic vision with practical delivery, bridging AI, SRE, and platform concerns. His background includes founding a startup and sales engineering, giving him commercial empathy alongside technical depth. Based in Spain and fluent in scaling both teams and systems, he brings an operator’s mindset to AI productization.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Grado en Ingeniería Ingeniería de sistemas, Grado en Ingeniería Ingeniería de sistemas at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Axel Arnold - Head Of Artificial Intelligence at Kleo