Rikard Andersson
IT Consultant at Alf (part of LF Alliance)
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolRikard Andersson is an experienced IT consultant with 11 years of hands-on work building and operating distributed systems across telecom, fintech, and industrial automation. He excels in backend engineering and platform work—frequently using Go, Scala, TypeScript/Node, Kafka/RabbitMQ and cloud-native tooling such as Kubernetes and AWS—to deliver event-driven, high-throughput systems. His M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from Chalmers grounds a pragmatic approach to software design and quality, and he’s applied that to factory-floor platforms, streaming analytics, and large-scale payment systems. Colleagues know him for analytical curiosity and a continuous-learning mindset; less obvious is his cross-discipline background spanning psychology and graphic design, which informs clear system thinking and effective stakeholder communication. Currently contributing to IoT and observability-powered backend projects, he focuses on making complex distributed architectures reliable and measurable.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, 4.6, Information Technology, 4.6 at Nanyang Technological UniversityM.Sc, Industrial Engineering and Management, 4.8, M.Sc, Industrial Engineering and Management, 4.8 at Chalmers tekniska högskolaGraphic design and communication, Graphic design and communication at The Institute of Technology at Linköping UniversityPsychology, Psychology at Linköping University
English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (79)
producer10
opentelemetry9
confluent9
collector9
librdkafka9
idp9
confluent-cloud9
connect9
telemetry9
golang8
tempo8
otel8
identity-provider8
apache-kafka8
pluggable7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rikardNL/uaa
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 1 month
uaaaccountauthenticationcloudfoundryaws
rikardev/nvim
Jul 2024 - Aug 2024
A launch point for your personal nvim configuration
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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