Håkan Niska
Senior Systems Architect & Consultant at Järlesjö & Niska AB
Västerbotten County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolHåkan Niska is a Senior Systems Architect with 20+ years turning early concepts into production-ready solutions for telecoms, finance, and startups. He combines deep solution-stage engineering experience from Cisco and Tail-f with recent hands-on work building multi-tenant, LLM-enabled backends and automated evaluation pipelines for enterprise integrations in Slack and Microsoft Teams. Comfortable as a customer-facing individual contributor, he validates feasibility on-site across EMEA and APAC and rapidly prototypes PWAs and deep integrations to de-risk investments. His strengths include strict tenant isolation and operational safety for AI systems, Python-driven automation across complex stacks, and mentoring non-technical founders to translate ideas into roadmaps. Pragmatic and curiosity-driven, he thrives where real-world constraints force elegant, maintainable trade-offs.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Luleå University of Technology
English, Swedish
Github Skills (15)
cas8
authentication7
ldap6
vscode-plugin6
yang6
kerberos6
python5
shell5
bash5
configurations4
testing4
vscode3
cli3
theia3
vscode-extension3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NSO-developer/ldap-auth
Feb 2019 - Oct 2022
NSO LDAP External Authentication Example
Contributions:1 review, 3 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 8 months
authenticationldapnsocaskerberos
hniska/normalised-interface
Jun 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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