Robert Åkerblom
Senior Managed OpenShift Black Belt at Red Hat
Oulu, North Ostrobothnia, Finland
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Top SchoolRobert Åkerblom is a seasoned cloud and DevOps entrepreneur with 14+ years building and scaling PaaS, DBaaS and managed Kubernetes offerings, currently serving as Senior Managed OpenShift Black Belt at Red Hat. He blends deep hands-on engineering—having built container systems before Docker, an SDN-based L2/L3 network, automated databases and storage stacks—with commercial experience as a founder who raised VC and exited a company. Skilled in Go and Google Cloud, he bridges technical and business conversations to drive product-market fit, pre-sales, and customer onboarding. He also has practical ML experience and a history of inventing specialized infrastructure like Lockdown (a pre-Kubernetes PaaS scheduler) and an FPGA-optimized NoC spec, illustrating a knack for solving uncommon systems problems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BSc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Umeå UniversityStudies on the side while working, Business Administration and Management, General, 5/5, Studies on the side while working, Business Administration and Management, General, 5/5 at Umeå School of Business, Economics, and Statistics (USBE)Bergs GymnasiumPractical course, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations, Practical course, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations at Uminova Innovation
English, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish
Github Skills (101)
programming-language10
mobile-development10
windows10
middleware10
app-framework10
sdk10
skia10
golang10
dart10
server-side10
cross-platform10
go10
android10
mobile10
css-modules10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DartVoid/Vane-Hello
Mar 2014 - Nov 2014
Hello world example using the Vane framework
Contributions:13 commits in 8 months
javascriptvane
Scorpiion/Renux_stable_kernel
Nov 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:14 commits in 9 days
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