Theo

AWS Advisor in Lorensberg Sweden

Optimize your AWS architecture and reduce your cloud costs by thousands to tens of thousands per month on a recurring basis by working with Theo.

Theo is an experienced developer and architect with a thing for distributed systems, big data, and analytics. Over ten years of experience building applications on AWS, and a reference customer for multiple AWS service teams. A Cassandra MVP, and ranked in the top 500 on Stack Overflow.

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Employment

AWS Advisor
2020 - Present

  • Making Jeff Bezos marginally less astronomically rich by helping companies lower their AWS bills
  • Helping companies understand that the cloud is both the cheapest and most expensive way to run infrastructure, it's all about how you do it. The cost metrics that cloud providers like AWS give their customers can rival the application metrics the development teams are working with in terms of detail and depth – and when everything is metered in detail, cost should be a design parameter just like performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Helping development teams find the best architecture to build their applications in AWS, automate infrastructure creation and deployment, and give them the tools and knowledge to run them as cheaply as possible in the long term

Contributor
Open Source Community ⦁ 2000 - 2020

  • Managing and contributing to a number of open source projects, for example the DataStax Ruby driver for Cassandra, the Ruby AMQP project, Rubydoop, Ione, MessagePack and JRuby. Voted MVP by the Cassandra community 2013, 2014 and 2015
  • Speaker at conferences like JRubyConf, Cassandra Summit, AWS Summit, Scandinavian Developer Conference

Director of Technology & Chief Architect
Burt Intelligence ⦁ 2017 - 2020

  • Burt Intelligence builds marketing intelligence products for publishers and has a data integration and analysis platform that connects hundreds of data sources into easy to analyze data sets for their customers
  • Responsible for technical strategy, architecture, and development principles to make the company achieve more, at higher quality, and with less resources

Director of Technology, Chief Architect, Lead Developer
Burt ⦁ 2017, 2012 - 2017, 2009 - 2011 respectively

  • Responsible for technical strategy, architecture, and development principles to make the company achieve more, at higher quality, and with less resources
  • Designing and building big data systems for analytics. Responsible for developer culture, quality, reliability, and infrastructure costs
  • First developer at a fledgling startup in the adtech space, responsible for doing whatever is needed from frontend development, to big data processing, and at the same time building a development team

Freelance Developer and Designer
Iconara ⦁ 1999 - 2010

  • Working as a freelance consultant with everything related to the web. Clients include Nudie Jeans Co., Göteborg International Film Festival, Daddy and Visutech

Designer and Developer
Röd ⦁ 2005 - 2006

  • Web development consultancy partnership during the apocalyptic years after the IT bubble had burst

Developer
Symphony Teleca ⦁ 2004

  • Summer intern developer and interface designer

Teaching Assistant
Chalmers University of Technology ⦁ 2002-2004

  • Teaching assistant for the courses Object Oriented Software Development 1 & 2, Information Systems (Databases) and Project for IT1

Web Developer
Sandberg Trygg ⦁ 2000-2001

  • Wrote HTML and helped inflate the IT bubble

Education

M. Sc., Interaction Design, 2005 - 2006, 2019 - 2020
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Interaction Design, Human Computer Interaction, Graphical Interfaces, Ubiquitous Computing, Methods, Analysis and projects. Master's currently being completed

Masters of Innovation and Research in Informatics, 2004 - 2005
University of the Arts London, London, United Kingdom
Graphics Design Portfolio Course at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design

Bachelor’s degree in Applied Informatics, 2001 - 2006
Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Gothenburg, Sweden
The BSc is in Software Engineering, and the MSc is in Interaction Design (see separate education item)
Object Oriented Programming, Information Systems, Databases, Data Structures, Concurrent Programming, Human Computer Interaction, Object Oriented System Development, Projects, Computer Technology, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Artificial Intelligence, etc

CERTIFICATIONS

Machine Learning, 2018
Coursera

Languages

English, Swedish

Theo

AWS Advisor in Lorensberg Sweden

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