Axel Wikström
Senior Software Engineer at Reaktor
Helsinki, Mainland Finland
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Top SchoolAxel Wikström is a Senior Software Engineer based in Helsinki with 12 years of hands-on experience building full‑stack and cloud-native systems. He blends application development and DevOps expertise—having implemented auto-scaling CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure on AWS/Azure/ECS/Kubernetes, and internal tooling using Go, Python, NodeJS and React. At RELEX he advanced from DevOps developer to lead responsibilities mentoring engineers and managing consultants, and now contributes to interdisciplinary projects at Reaktor. Axel emphasizes deep technical understanding and industry best practices, striving to "always know what you are doing" to deliver reliable, maintainable software. His background includes building production-grade orchestration, monitoring and release automation across diverse tech stacks, plus early startup experience in web platforms from his Synack internship.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Helsinki
Swedish, Finnish, English, Spanish, Japanese
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Github Skills (85)
clientside10
debian10
puzzle10
fltk10
tetris10
web-application9
ssh9
teamcity9
gitlab-ci9
java9
webrtc9
gitlab9
scalable8
jitsi8
video-conferencing8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
a544jh/geocachedb
Mar 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 2 pushes in 10 months
a544jh/panel-pop
Aug 2015 - Aug 2019
Panel de Pon / Tetris Attack / Puzzle League clone
Contributions:10 releases, 2 reviews, 200 commits in 4 years
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