Carl-Fredrik Arvidson

Carl-Fredrik Arvidson

November 10, 2024

I really love building things for the internet together with other people. I enjoy mob programming, pair programming and doing things solo. Since 2004, I’ve held various roles focused on system administration, operations and development.

My main employer has been:

  1. The Stellar Collective (2024-Present)
  2. Code Labs AB (2022-2024)
  3. Sveriges Television (2017-2022)
  4. Kundo (2017)
  5. Swedish Security Service (2012-2017)
  6. Swedish Armed Forces (2004-2012)

By working with the aforementioned agencies and companies, I have acquired a deep knowledge of what's required to run and operate complex software systems within organizations which have extremely high security standards.

I have continuously kept my skills up to date driven largely by a strong personal interest in programming, systems networking and security, working with amazing people and by attending security-focused courses and conferences.

I love building things together with other people and seeing the finished product. I enjoy mob programming, pair programming and doing things solo.

Experience

  1. TV4 Consultant​

    Stockholm - Fullstack Developer

    September 2024 - Present

    • In September 2024 I joined a team at TV4 as a fullstack developer (consultant).
    • Developing a new in-house media asset management system and media pipeline for TV4.
    • Technologies: AWS, AWS State Machines, MySQL, Python, React, NextJS, TypeScript, TypeORM

  2. The Stellar Collective Consultant​

    Stockholm - Fullstack Developer

    September 2024 - Present

  3. Scania Consultant​

    Södertälje - Fullstack Developer

    December 2023 - June 2024

    • In December 2023 I joined a DevOps team at Scania
    • Worked with a web application that was part of the DevOps that was the dashboard for the different software teams
    • I gave the application a frontend makeover and implemented the internal Scania Tegel design system
    • I also optimized the backend performance, going from 17 seconds to 1 to load the main dashboard
    • Technologies: React, Gatsby, Postgres, Python, Flask, Flask-SQLAlchemy

  4. Skincity/Kicks Consultant​

    Stockholm - Fullstack Developer

    December 2022 - January 2024

    • In December 2022 I joined the small IT department at Skincity.
    • My focus would be to maintain and develop a test/recommendation application used by the customers and skin therapists.
    • I was the lone developer for the application that had previously had a whole team working on it.
    • I worked with a web application that had a customer facing part and a part facing the skin therapists
    • Technologies: Node.js, React, Next.JS, MySQL/Postgres, Type-ORM, Redux
    • Deployment on Vercel and AWS using CircleCI and Github Actions

  5. Code Labs AB Consultant​

    Stockholm - Fullstack Developer

    November 2022 - July 2024

    • I joined the team at codelabs.se as a consultant in november 2022.
    • Technologies: Node.js, React, Next.JS, MySQL/Postgres, Type-ORM, Redux
    • Deployment on Vercel and AWS using CircleCI and Github Actions

  6. Sveriges Television ​

    Stockholm - Fullstack Developer

    December 2019 - November 2022

    • In December 2019, I joined the News and Sports team at Sveriges Television
    • Developing a new platform for live reporting
    • Technologies: Node.js, React, Firebase/Firestore, Knex, MySQL
    • Deployment on Heroku, Google Cloud Platform and Firebase

  7. Sveriges Television ​

    Stockholm - Fullstack Developer

    December 2017 - December 2019

    • In December 2017, I joined the Developer Experience team at Sveriges Television
    • Mission: Make SVT the best place for developers to do great work
    • Developer Support, onboarding, documentation, Security Practices
    • Automated Developer Workflows with GitLab CI/CD
    • Internal tooling mostly written in NodeJS, React and Python
    • Built reference implementations of various technologies. One example was a company specific SAML2 application using NodeJS

  8. Kundo ​

    Stockholm - Fullstack Developer

    January 2017 - December 2017

    • In January 2017, I joined the Product Development team at Kundo
    • As a Python developer I have written and deployed Python and JavaScript code for Kundo’s Forum, Email, and Chat products
    • Building deployment tools for internal use
    • Developed using tools and methods like Docker, Vagrant, PyCharm
    • Worked in an agile way with daily standups and sprint planning
    • Code-review using GitHub.com and Continuous Integration with CircleCI.com

  9. Swedish Security Service ​

    Stockholm - Fullstack Developer

    September 2015 - December 2016

    • In 2015, I joined a development team and started to focus on application development in *nix systems

  10. Swedish Security Service ​

    Stockholm - System Operations Engineer

    January 2012 - September 2015

    • In February 2012, I joined the Systems Operations team at the Swedish Security Service (SÄPO), located on Kungsholmen in central Stockholm
    • My focus was on *nix based systems, networking and security technologies
    • IT Security incident handling and response

  11. Swedish Armed Forces and Swedish Defence Materiel Administration Consultant​

    Stockholm - Server Technician

    September 2007 - December 2011

    In September of 2007, I started as a full-time consultant at the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) in Stockholm on project Fenix. Fenix is a web based aviation maintenance system for the Swedish Air-Force.

    I was part of the early team that took the Fenix platform into production, and worked on migrating the existing JAS–39 Gripen (Swedish fighter jet) fleet from its previous archaic systems onto the new Fenix aviation maintenance platform. Since the project went live, the Swedish Air-Force has continued to migrate several other aircraft types onto the new Fenix platform.

    I started as a systems administrator for the development and testing infrastructure, which consisted mainly of Microsoft Windows and Sun Solaris servers. Part of my responsibility was also to work with the development team on quality assurance and testing of new releases before they went into production.

    As the project grew in size, the demand for more rapid deployment and testing increased. I was tasked with designing and configuring a new development platform, which was based on technology from Dell, EMC and VMWare.

    In 2010, I switched roles and began working as part of the development team at FMV. As part of the export of the JAS–39 Gripen to the Royal Thai Air-force, I worked on creating product specifications and test cases for any new functionality that was required.

  12. Ström2 Consultant Group Consultant​

    Stockholm - Server Technician

    2007 - 2011

    In 2007, I started at Ström2 Consultant Group. Along with the change of employment from IT-Resurs to Ström2, I also started working at the Headquarters of the Swedish Armed Forces in Stockholm.

    In addition to being a full-time consultant for the Swedish Armed Forces, I worked with the in-house IT Infrastructure at Ström2. As the IT Manager at Ström2 I was responsible for keeping the main office systems up and running.

    To make the server environment more manageable I rebuilt it and virtualized it using technology from VMware, Microsoft and Linux (mostly Debian).

  13. IT-Resurs/Swedish Armed Forces Consultant​

    Uppsala - Support Technician

    2005 - 2007

    In October 2005, I started as a IT-Support Technician at the Military Garrison in Uppsala. I was part of the team that supported the Swedish Operational Command, which was stationed in Uppsala at the time.

    Although I mainly worked with the unclassified infrastructure, I went through additional training on handling classified material and equipment.

  14. Swedish Armed Forces ​

    Stockholm - Conscript

    2004 - 2005

    In July 2004, I began my basic military training at the Karlskrona Naval Base. After the 8 weeks of basic training and an additional leadership training course we moved from Karlskrona to the Swedish Military Headquarters in Stockholm.

    The daily activities consisted of user support, logistics, user training, server and network management, IT security and a final individual project. We worked side by side with both employees of the Armed Forces and Consultants. We had the daily support responsibility for one of the floors of the Headquarters in Stockholm.

    My final project consisted of the development of a Light Touch Deployment Server, used for remote installation of Microsoft Windows XP clients. The server was later taken into production and used on the Internet LAN at the Operational Command in Uppsala. I left the Swedish Armed Forces after my 15 months conscription was over as a Sergeant, with the final mark of 10–8–9 out of 10–9–9.

Training & Certifications

    • SANS Security 561: Intense Hands-on Pen Testing Skill Development. Las Vegas USA
    • HP ArcSight ESM Administrator 6 CORR Engine. London UK
    • SANS Security 504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling, Amsterdam Netherlands
    • Dell Compellent Storage Area Network, Minneapolis USA
    • 5 day Malware FBI lead course, in-house at the Swedish Security Service, Stockholm
    • VMware Infrastructure 3 Fast Track Program
    • Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment
    • Mastering Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 R2 and R3
    • Programming with C# Using Microsoft.NET Framework 4
    • ITIL Introduction
    • Service management
    • Basic Combat Training by the Swedish Armed Forces
    • Crypto and Security Training by the Swedish Armed Forces

Education

Katedralskolan, Uppsala, Sweden​, 2004 - High school

References

Available upon request.