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Joakim Verona, Senior DevOps Consultant

I specialize in helping organizations achieve succesful DevOps transformations.

Me and the teams I work with are responsible for large scale deployments of systems serving millions of requests per day to large user bases.

The DevOps transformation role requires thorough understanding of real-world technical implementation combined with a thorough understanding of business development.

I have a master of science in computer engineering degree from Linköping Institute of Technology.

My business experience from large swedish organizations such as Ericsson gives me experience work on business development tasks.

I've worked with a wide range of assignments and organizations, for instance bank and finance (SEB, Investor, Handelsbanken), Telecom (Ericsson, EHPT, Telia, nWise), industrial (Sandvik), the press (DN, Aftonbladet), the unions (Svenska Livsmedelsarbetarförbundet), Gaming(Unibet, Ongame), Government(Arbetsförmedlingen) and many more.

Education

Master of science degree in computer engineering, 1988 - 1996

specializing in computer vision and graphics. Linköpings Institute of Technology

Assignments

Arbetsförmedlingen, Jobtech Development, 2018 - present

I am the teamlead for Jobtechs DevOps team, that work with all the technical cross cutting concerns of Jobtech.

Jobtech was formed by Arbetsförmedlingen to facilitate the development of an infrastructure for the job market in Sweden.

As such, we work with diverse technologies that scales to milions of request per day. Our search-product is used as the backend for the largest job board in Sweden, platsbanken.se

Arbetsförmedlingen, The IRIS Deep Learning project, 2015.11 - 2018

I worked with the Deep Learning team at Arbetsförmedlingen to understand the labour market.

We used machine learning and deep learning tools such as Tensorflow, Gensim, Keras, Theano etc, running on hardware solutions optimized for deep learning. I focused on the challenges of implementing DevOps for machine learning tools.

Seamless Distribution Systems AB, DevOps implementation, 2015 - 2017

The DevOps team at Seamless and I worked together introducing a DevOps mindset at Seamless, as well as doing technical implementations of continuous deployment services.

nWise, a continuous delivery pipeline, 2015.06 - 2015.11

The nWise team and I created a modern continuous delivery pipeline for nWise. We used a DevOps approach and implemented Jenkins, Docker, Gitlab, Sonar and other relevant continuous delivery tools. Apart from the technical work, We also worked to spread a DevOps mindset at nWise.

Arbetsförmedlingen, Devops Configuration Manager, 2014.09 - 2015.06

Implementing Continous Delivery for the "Next" project, a new version of AF:s customer facing services.

"Next" was a large project spanning eight teams and many deliverables.

I coordinated technical Configuration Management activities, and worked wth many technologies. The base plattform is Jboss 8 Wildfly, Java 8. Oracle Rack as RDBMS. Puppet for deploys, Jenkins for build servers. Docker light weight virtualization for test automation.

During this project we worked on moving from a traditional waterfall-style model to a DevOps Agile workflow.

Arbetsförmedlingen, Devops Configuration Manager and Senior Developer, 2012-2014.09

I worked with many systems. I migrated systems from Jboss 6 to Wildfly. Introduced Docker in the organization. Developed SOAP based middleware.

nWise MMX, Multimedia Exchange system for the deaf, 2012-2015

Cross-plattform C design and implementation, J2EE development. I worked with image mixing technologies using OpenCV in the video telephony components. I implemented a build pipeline, using virtual machines for different operating systems.

Ongame. Continuous Delivery in an agile environment, 2011-2012

Unibet. Continuous Delivery in an agile environment, 2009-2011

Ericsson MMX, Multimedia Exchange system for the deaf, 2007-2009

Configuration management, J2EE development.

Projectplace AB - DevOps engineer, Configuration Manager, Senior system developer, 2004-2007

Projectplace is a successful project collaboration ASP. I worked as Configuration Manager on the Continuous Delivery systems. I also contributed to the enhancement of the service by coding subsystems in C++, Python and Java, for instance, a WebDAV implementation.

Telia Centrex Statistik, 2003

Design and implementation of a Corba backend, XML mediators for SAS middleware, and an XML/XSLT web frontend with Apache Cocoon

SEB File Upload function on Z/OS, 2003

Various implementations for SHB:s internal accounting system with SAS on Z/OS, 2003

Various implementations for Telias BOSS Datawarehouse, using SAS, Java, XML, shellscripts etc, 2003

An EMU compliance service offering feasibility study, 2003

Visual Wireless - Senior Consultant, 2002-2004

At Visual Wireless (now part of Lavastorm) I had the opportunity to work with very large Data Warehouses, and the various high performance hardware platforms that are necessary to support such systems.

Advise for a C# and .NET based system for FOI, the Swedish Defence Research Agency, 2002

an XML/XSLT based web using Apache Cocoon, for Dpart, a Swedish consultancy firm, 2000-2002

iWeb, an intranet system with J2EE technology on the Linux-platform, Java, C++, Perl, 2000-2002

Solution Architect at Ericsson Hewlet-Packard for Jalda, 1998-2001

Jalda is an e-commerse plattform that implements a secure payment method.

Java J2EE based public websites and intranet for the Swedish food process union, 2001

A java J2EE based web using JSP, for Netintelligence, a Swedish concultancy firm, 2001

An Apache based web, for Tengelin and partners, a Swedish concultancy firm, 2001

Quality assurance for iCuisine, a web solution in use at Sodexho, 2000

ICuisine was built on the MS platform, using ASP and COM

Dr SmokeFree, 2000

An expert-system for helping people quit smoking. For Samhällsmedicin.

Qtrans, a Java, Perl and C++ based financial information mediation system, 1999

Requirement analysis for AMS intranet, 1998

Design, automated testing and cryptography solutions for WM-Data's Insikt 97, a CBT for MS Office, 1997

Requirement analysis, architecture, design and implementation of Global Application Release and schedule system, 1997

``Global Application Release and schedule system'' for Ericsson. A java based client server system.

Gröna Konsums Organisational charts, 1997

Javabased client server solution

Investors combined Web and presentation CD-Rom, 1996

Investor is a Swedish investment bank.

DN Motor is a Swedish magazine.

Telia for Inform@phone, 1995

Prototype for Inform@phone, hardware for a public booth multimedia terminal, for Telia, a swedish telco

Sparanden, a CBT for SEB. 1995

SIV, ``Swedish for the Department of Immigration'', 1994

Cross Plattform C++ on Windows and MacOS

A promotional multimedia presentation for Kährs, 1994

GyEk, a financial CBT for Arvidsjaurs public school, 1993

Mag, a visualization aid for the seeing impaired, for CBT:s, 1993

Course leader assignments and workshops

Test automation with Java and docker

Java Forum (2014), HiQ(2015), Arbetsförmedlingen (2015)

Continuous Delivery

A workshop I've lead for several organizations.

SF Bio AB
Ongame AB
Unibet AB
Ericsson AB
nWise AB
CAT Rental AB

Informator

Object oriented programming with C++
Programming the MFC using Microsoft Visual C++
Multimedia

Alfaskop

Advanced Java techniques

WM-Data

Web technology
Developing Interactive Multimedia applications
Advanced Authorware techniques

LiTH(IDA)

Lisp
Pascal
Data structures and algorithms

LiTH(ISY)

Digital technology
Digital construction with microprocessors
Digital construction with programmable logic circuits

Industry Certifications

Neo4j Certified Professional (2016)
SAFE, Scaled Agile Framework (2015)
ISTQB, Test Professional (2011)
ITIL, foundation (2011)
Spring (in progress)
Clearcase Unix Administration (2011)
Sun Java Architect (1999)
Sun Java 2 Programmer (1999)
Microsoft Certified Professional (1999)
Informator certified teacher (1997)
Certified Scrum-master (2010)
Certified Scrum Product Owner (2012)
Certified Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (2015)

Misc

Swedish Military Service, 1987 - 1988

Contact Information

email: joakim@verona.se
tel: +46 (0) 70 545 9454
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joakim-verona/1/b99/187
website: https://www.verona.se

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