Summary
Axel Riese is a senior software engineer based in Stockholm with 12 years of experience building data-intensive backend and platform systems for global tech companies. He specializes in CI/CD, serverless deployments, and DevOps tooling, having led a multi-account AWS deployment framework and driven platform initiatives at Northvolt and Spotify. At Sana Labs he continues focusing on scalable backend solutions, while his earlier work spans data pipeline execution, privacy infrastructure, and large-scale data quality tooling. Axel combines hands-on engineering with stakeholder-driven product adaption, and his master's work and thesis reflect a strong applied ML background in model compression and mobile-friendly classifiers. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges data engineering and platform reliability.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
The University of Melbourne
Swedish, English