Erik is a solution-oriented DevOps enthusiast, who believes the best way to generate value in a software company is by tearing down walls and helping developers deliver new functionality faster. Erik has worked as Team Lead and Line Manager, being responsible for up to four XFTs spread out over the world, and has also been responsible for developing and maintaining organisation wide CI/CD systems. By leveraging his technical expertise and leadership experience, Erik can assist both with building developer platforms, architectural discussions as well as overarching process changes in your organisation.
Having worked in different industries, including: automotive, telecom, embedded and customs, Erik has experience with a wide range of technologies. He has implemented cloud-based workflows, utilising gitops to deploy Kubernetes applications to both managed and self-hosted clusters; but also with on-premise, air-gapped deployments, requiring self-contained deliverables.
Erik has a proficiency for breaking down complex tasks into manageable chunks. He excels in assignments with unclear and changing requirements, and embraces the agile way of working with iterative improvements. He adapts quickly to new tools and environments and always looks for new ways to shorten the feedback loop.
Eriks CV
Zenseact
Kubernetes Expert and Platform Engineer
2025 -
ASSIGNMENT
Zenseact develops AI-powered software for autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems. Their solution combines in-car software and cloud services to offer rigorous protection on the road.
ROLE
Combining his technical expertise and leadership experience, Erik is currently working in Zenseact’s dedicated Kubernetes team, responsible for ensuring everyone at Zenseact has a place to develop, test and deploy their services.
IMPACT
This is an ongoing assignment. More info to follow!
Kollmorgen, a Regal Rexnord brand, is a technology leader in navigation and fleet control of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs).
ROLE
In this short-term assignment, Erik worked together with an architect to help Kollmorgen R&D assess their current IT environment and Way of Working.
IMPACT
Erik and his partner delivered a presentation for Kollmorgen’s leadership team, which sparked a transformation journey within the company. They proposed cost efficient improvements, with respect to IT, processes and tools used within the company; while considering the overall capabilities and throughput of the R&D department.
Husqvarna Construction
The DevOps Team
2024 - 2025
ASSIGNMENT
Husqvarna Construction manufactures big tools to fulfil your cutting, drilling, sawing and vibrating needs. All of these tools have computers in them, running mission critical embedded software, to help the end user better utilise their equipment.
ROLE
As the sole member of the DevOps Team, Erik was responsible for everything concerning building and shipping the software that is developed at the Electronics & SW department. This included deploying and maintaining cloud and on-premise infrastructure, writing pipelines and helping developers and testers improve their way of working.
IMPACT
Erik’s work was necessary to ensure daily operations. During the assignment Erik focused on simplifying old, organically grown, processes and emphasised the usage of monitoring across the organisation. He updated old infrastructure and software to either run on their most up-to-date versions or changed the tooling altogether; always with the purpose to increase the speed and reliability of the software lifecycle.
TMHLS develops T-ONE, the software which makes Toyota Fork Lifts autonomous. T-ONE is a containerised .NET application with an in-house developed workflow engine.
ROLE
Erik worked in a three person team, responsible for "developer support". Together with the team, he maintained and improved the developer platform, which spanned both cloud and on-prem resources as well as everything concerning regular IT work (networking, certificates, etc.). He was also responsible for migrating T-ONE from a docker compose deployment to Kubernetes, as well as developing and implementing a new release process, focusing on trunk based development and automated release candidates.
IMPACT
By migrating T-ONE to Kubernetes, Erik was a key enabler for TMHLS acquiring a large contract. He has also been instrumental to several cost savings w.r.t. the customer's cloud usage, bringing static workloads on-premise and utilising cloud resources more efficiently.
Maersk (formerly KGH) Customs Services provides customs clearance, booking and global trade consulting services all over the world. They develop and host several SaaS solutions with round-the-clock availability in order to ensure their customers can move their goods to its destination.
ROLE
When KGH was acquired by Maersk, Erik was asked to help them evolve their software suite to a cloud native offering. This included a technical transformation, as well as a change to KGH’s way-of-working, where Erik was able to combine his leadership and Kubernetes experience to advice the CTO and architects in their work. After agreeing on a way forward, Erik spent most of his time pair-programming together with the developers; making sure there would be no knowledge gap once the assignment was over. In addition to the transformative work, Erik supported the existing Operations Department with their everyday work, handling deployments, builds of older systems, monitoring, logging, and related tasks.
IMPACT
By the end of the assignment, Erik had led several successful service migrations and helped formulate the plan for migrating KGH’s larger and more complex products.
The Packet Core department at Ericsson is responsible for the company’s 5G portfolio and the SWDP is crucial to ensuring zero downtime upgrades of all components in the 5G stack.
Jun ’21–Nov ’21 Line Manager (Acting)
As acting Line Manager, Erik had the opportunity to work with recruitment, change management, and coaching team members in their careers. He managed around 20 people from different countries and answered to the Packet Core department manager.
IMPACT
Erik successfully helped the XFTs and PO increase their throughput by providing for the teams’ needs. With his support, the teams delivered on their commitments and worked in close collaboration with their stakeholders.
Jul ’20–Jun ’21 Team Facilitator for DevOps Teams
As Team Facilitator, Erik was responsible for the performance of four XFTs. He coached the teams in agile principles and helped them perform at their highest level. Being one of the most senior people in the project (see Software Engineer pos. below), Erik was still involved in architectural/design decisions for the product.
IMPACT
Erik’s goal was to imbue the DevOps mindset in the project and the developers he worked with. He helped the teams find new ways of working which helped them deliver higher quality software at an increasing pace.
May ’19–Jul ’20 Software & CI/CD Engineer
Erik was one of the first team members to join the Packet Core’s Continuous Delivery & Deployment project. The product (SWDP) is a Python application which automates the upgrade procedure of Packet Cores’ network functions, ensuring critical telecom infrastructure receive up-to-date software with zero downtime.
IMPACT
Was involved in product design, development as well as testing and developing the build/deployment pipeline for the product. He helped migrate the team from Gerrit to GitLab and utilised Docker Swarm to ensure a readily available build environment.
Volvo Autonomous Solutions strive to transform the movement of goods through efficient, sustainable and safe autonomous solutions. They deliver a “control tower” for overseeing their autonomous vehicles.
ROLE
During his assignment, Erik worked as a Java developer, scrum master and CI/CD developer. He was part of a team which was tasked with delivering a containerised fleet management system, capable of planning routes and communicating with the autonomous vehicles. Erik also developed and was responsible for the Continuous Integration (CI) tool chain for the Java based products in the project.
IMPACT
The CI/CD platform that Erik developed helped the teams find integration pain points significantly faster than what they had found before.
