About me

Hi! I'm Kenneth Nilsson

I'm an IT geek who can explain technical stuff to anyone at any level of experience.

Technical Experience

What I do the most

Cloud

AWS Architect/DevOps with years of experience implementing production workloads on AWS.

Designing solutions based on "Well-Architected and the Six Pillars".

  • AWS Cloudformation
  • Hashicorp Terraform
  • Concourse
Cloud
Laptop

DevOps

Implementing CI/CD workflows for automatic releases. Simplifying Developers job to get their code to production.

  • Windows, Linux
  • Container Orchestration
  • Azure DevOps
  • Octopus Deploy

Developer

Fullstack with Lead Developer experience. Specifying, developing and maintaining new and legacy applications.

  • C#
  • .NET Core
  • ASP.NET (API, MVC, Razor, Blazor)
  • Javascript (NodeJs, NextJs, Angular, Vue)
Coding

History

What I've been doing

2022

Cloud Architect

IT Consult, Consid - Financial Services

Supporting teams migrating applications to AWS following previous DevOps/Developer role setting up AWS Infrastructure. Security, Observability and Compliance focus.
Teaching new teams about Cloud and CI/CD adoption.

2020

Cloud DevOps

IT Consult, Consid - Financial Services

Initial workloads migrated to AWS. Configuring and setting a baseline infrastructure for migrating on-prem applications to AWS.

2019

Cloud Developer

IT Consult, Consid - Financial Services

Refactoring .NET applications for the Cloud. Moving suitable integrations to Cloud Native AWS products (Lambda, SNS, SES, SQS).
Everything IaC and blueprint focused.

2018

Lead Developer

IT Consult, Consid - Financial Services

Responsible for a teams Technical Specifications, Architecture, Support of 6 developers and communicating with Stakeholders, Project Managers and IT Leadership.
Started the Customers journey to the Cloud.

2016

DevOps

IT Consult, Consid - Financial Services

Setting up a complete CI/CD environment on-prem used by Developers, Application Ops and Product Owners to handle releases. Azure DevOps (formerly TFS) and Octopus as main components.

2014

.NET Developer

IT Consult, Consid - Financial Services

Developing and maintaining 20+ Frontend and Backend-applications using EPiServer, ASP.NET, C#, Entity-Framework, MSSQL

2010

EPiServer Developer

IT Consult, Knowit - Customer websites

Developing, configuring and maintaining customer websites using EPiServer CMS.

Personal Interests

Sometimes I leave the screen

  • Home Automation project where I use HomeAssistant. "Hey Google, start vacuuming!"
  • Quadcopter/Drones, built my own 250mm Racing Quadcopter, still use DJI for simplicity.
  • PC Gaming, mainly FPS or RPG titles.
  • Padel wich I started a couple years ago (like most people).
  • Golf and Wakeboarding in the summer during good weather.
  • Snowboarding or Diving on vacations.
  • Finding rare beers from micro-breweries