Joakim Ahrlin
Infrastructure Engineer at Supabase
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolJoakim Ahrlin is an Infrastructure Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems using Go, GCP, Kubernetes, Istio, Terraform and Bazel. He has led engineering teams and shipped production infrastructure at companies from Sandvik and Embark to Causal and now Supabase, combining hands-on SRE work with architecture and recruitment responsibilities. His open-source contributions to cert-manager show a focus on automation, CI/CD and multi-architecture build support (including arm64), highlighting a pragmatic attention to release engineering and platform portability. Comfortable across backend services, observability and developer tooling, he brings both technical depth and product-focused delivery to distributed systems. Based in Stockholm, he often bridges team leadership and deep implementation work, having repeatedly moved from architecture to code in the same role.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master 1 year Computer Science, Master 1 year Computer Science at Stockholm University
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (23)
build-time10
kubernetes10
buildx10
cicd10
build-engine10
build210
automation10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
dockers9
docker9
helm9
certificate9
bash8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cert-manager/cert-manager
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:67 reviews, 24 commits, 21 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Joakim contributed significantly to the automation and infrastructure aspects of the cert-manager project. They implemented an uninstall command using Helm and added build files for experimental features. Their work also included updating build and dependency files, modifying tar commands for artifact creation, and improving the continuous integration setup, demonstrating a strong focus on automation and release processes. Furthermore, the user updated base images used in the build process and added arm64 images for several components, indicating their involvement in platform support and build optimization.
cert-managerletsencryptssltlscertificates
jahrlin/cert-manager
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
Contributions:47 pushes, 10 branches in 8 months
cert-managerletsencryptsslcertificate-generationtls
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