NICKLAS KARLSSON

Cloud Solution Architect

Skånegatan 84A, 116 37, Stockholm, Sverige [email protected] +46 729 614 909

Profile

I am a humble person. I love meeting new people and to work in teams. One of my best qualities is to build meaningful and long-term relationships. I am driven, loyal and accurate.

Skills

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft 365
  • Power Platform
  • Architecture
  • Service Development
  • Product Development
  • Project Leader
  • Automation
  • API-Integration
  • IaC / DevOps
  • Cloud Governance
  • Cloud Security
  • Databases
  • Power BI
  • Web Development

Education

HIGH SCHOOL

1995 - 1998 Electricity Program with Computer Science

Military Service

1998 - 1999 Radar Technician (Platoon Leader) | F21 Luleå

Misc. IT Related Cources

2000 - present Development, IT, Project Management, ITIL,

Misc Info

  • Lecturer for e.g. Dell, Microsoft for various webinars and hosted events.
  • Moderator for the Cloud podcast (Retune) and various webinars.
  • Music Producer
  • Drivers license (B)
  • Languages

  • Swedish (native)
  • English (Full Professional)
  • Experience

    NORDIC PLATFORM MANAGER

    2021 to present | TD SYNNEX NORDIC

    Responsible for TD SYNNEX platforms at Nordic level. Driving technical development of our platforms regarding functionality and integration possibilities. Driving platform adoption, managing requests for the Nordic countries in regards to Cloud, software and security. Life Cycle Management of our vendors inside of our platforms. Four countries and hundreds of resellers/partners to lead and develop.

    LEAD CLOUD ARCHITECT | SERVICE DEVELOPER

    2012 to 2021 | RETUNE AB

    I came in early in the company and have had many technical leading roles. My main areas was as a Cloud Solution Architect. I guided, adviced and moved our customers from Onprem to cloud. In the latter part of my employment, I worked dedicatedly on developing cloud-based services for Retune's service sales.

    MICROSOFT PARTNER TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS PROFESSIONAL

    2013 to 2015 | RETUNE AB

    As Partner-Technical Solutions Professional, I worked as a sub-consultant for Microsoft Sweden AB within System Center and Cloud. I performed presale, implemented POC’s (Proof Of Concepts), onboarding of Enterprise Agreement customers and held workshops for various customers all over Sweden.

    SENIOR SOLUTION CONSULTANT

    2008 to 2012 | QBRANCH AB

    I worked in the solutions team and mainly worked with Qbranch major customers and solved problems or incidents of heavier species. Worked with architecture and design of network/servers/storage/security/hosting for, among others, LFV, Swedavia, Swedbank, SEB, Academedia, Riksbyggen, DN and others. The solutions team was a small group of 8 people with the highest competence within infrastructure and cloud.

    INFRASTRUCTURE & SYSTEM ENGINEER

    1999 to 2008 | VALLENTUNA KOMMUN

    I was responsible for the infrastructure. Networking, servers, virtualization, firewalls, Active Directory, Novell, SAN/Storage. Consolidated the majority of all the physical servers in to vmware. Responsible for the 5 major application systems.

    Certificates

    Azure Solution Architect Expert

    Certification is granted to subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including compute, network, storage, monitoring, and security.

    Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

    Certification is granted to subject matter expertise in working with people, processes, and products to enable continuous delivery of value in organizations. Designing and implementing strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback.

    Azure Administrator Associate

    Certification is granted to subject matter expertise in implementing, managing, and monitoring an organization’s Microsoft Azure environment, including virtual networks, storage, compute, identity, security, and governance.

    Azure Security Engineer Associate

    Certification is granted to subject matter expertise in implementing Azure security controls that protect identity, access, data, applications, and networks in cloud and hybrid environments as part of an end-to-end infrastructure.

    Azure Network Engineer Associate

    Certification is granted to subject matter expertise in planning, implementing, and maintaining Azure networking solutions, including hybrid networking, connectivity, routing, security, and private access to Azure services.

    Azure Security, Compliance and Identity Fundamentals

    This certification ensures you have a firm grasp of a range of topics in the rapidly growing field of cybersecurity. This fundamentals certification can serve as a steppingstone if you are interested in advancing to role-based certifications in security operations, identity and access management, and information protection.

    Azure Fundamentals

    This certification validates basic knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Azure. You are able to demonstrate a fundamental knowledge of cloud concepts, along with Azure services, workloads, security, privacy, pricing, and support.

    AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

    Earners of this certification have a fundamental understanding of IT services and their uses in the AWS Cloud. They demonstrated cloud fluency and foundational AWS knowledge. Badge owners are able to identify essential AWS services necessary to set up AWS-focused projects.

    Other Certificates

    Cisco, ITIL, Acronis, Logic Monitor, Cloud Champion

    References

    Provided on request

    Interests

    Music
    Training
    Climbing
    Coding
    Football