Peter Gardfjäll
Senior Software Engineer at Saab
Greater Umeå Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Gardfjäll is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience blending research-caliber thinking (PhLic) and hands-on engineering to build resilient, cloud-native systems. He specializes in Go, Kubernetes, and backend infrastructure—designing automation for software supply chain security, autonomic cloud management, and scalable service orchestration. Peter has practical experience shipping production tooling across AWS, GKE and on-prem clusters, and is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator who codified cluster lifecycle and day-two operations. An active open-source contributor, he improved mirroring and API behavior in the widely used Gitea project, reflecting a focus on reliable repository and sync semantics. Based in Umeå, Sweden, he brings a rare combination of distributed-systems research background and pragmatic engineering that surfaces in metadata-driven automation and package analysis solutions.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Umeå University
Github Skills (10)
git10
go10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
git-server10
docker6
dockers6
cicd5
golang5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
go-gitea/gitea
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 5 commits, 7 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to the Gitea project by implementing and improving features related to mirroring and API functionality. Their work involved adding a `MirrorUpdated` field to the repository API type and optimizing the sync performance of pull-mirrors, focusing on tag synchronization. Further contributions included handling errors and ensuring proper behavior for mirror synchronization, as well as marking pull-mirror repositories correctly upon creation. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on backend operations, API design, and repository management.
golangdevopsgiteahostedcup
elastisys/kube-insight-manifests
May 2018 - Nov 2018
A Kubernetes observability stack
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 months
kubernetes-dashboardobservabilityoperatorkubernetesprometheus
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