Joel Edvardsson
DevOps Engineer And Developer at Volvo Cars
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Edvardsson is a DevOps engineer and developer with 12 years of software experience, currently shaping platform reliability at Volvo Cars after a multi-year tenure as a design architect at Ericsson. He combines strong backend skills in Python, JavaScript, REST and multi-database expertise (MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, Oracle) with hands-on DevOps practices to deliver scalable production systems. A KTH-trained engineer, Joel has experience founding a tech company (Mobile Oak AB) and shipping Django-based web systems dating back to early career roles. His background spans both telecom-grade architecture and startup agility, making him comfortable across distributed systems, CI/CD and database design. Based in Gothenburg, he brings a pragmatic, end-to-end mindset—equally at ease writing code, designing architecture, and operating services in production. An under-the-radar strength is his breadth: from technical support and frontline roles to senior architecture, giving him rare operational empathy when solving complex engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyNaturvetenskap, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Naturvetenskap, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Polhemsgymnasiet, Göteborg
Swedish, English
Github Skills (8)
fabric9
minecraft9
monkey8
django7
django-extensions7
python6
storage1
pipeline1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
5monkeys/blues
May 2014 - Oct 2018
Blues -- blueprints for Fabric
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
minecraftfabricblueprintsbluesfabricmc
5monkeys/django-bananas
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Django extensions the monkey way
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 day
pythondjangomonkeyextensionsdjango-extensions
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