Ola Karlsson
Software Engineer at Megaport
Sundsvall, Västernorrland County, Sweden
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Top SchoolOla Karlsson is a seasoned software engineer and SRE with over a decade of experience building high-availability telecom and cloud systems, currently working at Megaport from Sweden. His background spans deep networking, IMS/SIP VoIP, and performance-focused UNIX/Linux development, with a strong emphasis on Golang and Google Cloud. Ola spent many years at Google across network and Chrome reliability roles, bringing production-scale operations and bandwidth expertise to software engineering. He contributes to open source tooling—most notably enhancements to the well-used goexpect library—demonstrating practical DevOps and automation sensibilities. Colleagues value his blend of low-level protocol knowledge and pragmatic cloud-native engineering, and he often surfaces non-obvious reliability improvements born from decades of on-call and kernel-level experience.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (7)
automation10
automations10
go10
testing10
cli9
ssh9
devops8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
google/goexpect
Apr 2017 - Apr 2021
Expect for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:112 commits, 42 PRs, 48 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Ola primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the `goexpect` library. Their work includes implementing a verbose logging option and integrating a writer for it, as well as adding functionality to send signals to spawned processes. They also added several examples demonstrating how to add new spawners for expect and how to use the SendSignal call. Additionally, the user worked on unit tests and added the use of the goterm library.
golangsshgoautomationcli
google/goterm
Oct 2015 - Sep 2020
Go Terminal library with PTY support and colors
Contributions:27 commits, 9 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 years 11 months
golangptyterminal
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