Tobias Becker

Tech Problem Poker based in Stockholm_

Experienced SRE/DevOps/Sysadmin/Lead with twenty years of experience in both on-prem and cloud based infrastructure. Passionate about problem solving, designing solutions for reliable and performant systems. Love working with people and finding ways to help foster personal development.

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Experience

Employment

Important Looking Pirates VFX

Apr 2023 — Present

Stockholm, Sweden

Head of IT

Jun 2025 · present

Managing the IT Support and Platform teams together with their respective Leads. Planning roadmaps together with development teams and stakeholders in the VFX production. Purchase and renewals of hardware, licensing and budgets. Developing and recruiting talent and following up on audit process and security best practices for the industry.

Lead Platform Engineer

Apr 2023 — Jun 2025 · 2 yrs

Working as the team lead in the Platform team, managing on-prem infrastructure such as network and firewalls, high performance flash storage and monitoring.

PuppetRocky LinuxNetworkFirewallsStoragePrometheus/GrafanaKubernetes

Klarna AB

Jan 2016 — Apr 2023

Site Reliability Engineer · Stockholm, Sweden

Work in a remote team across multiple countries with English as the primary language. Operating the backend used for processing transactions and ledger for payments. Migrated production environments from on-prem datacenters to AWS. Hands on with monitoring such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog and AWS Cloudwatch. Automating base AMI creation using Ansible and Packer. Part of the 24/7 on-call rotation for infrastructure, application, and database incidents.

AWSTerraformDockerAnsibleJenkinsDatadogOracle

RedBridge Group

Nov 2012 — Dec 2015

Consultant · Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholms Läns Landsting

Sep 2014 · 1 month

Consulting and performing Puppet major upgrade, module refactoring and hosting workshops on Puppet best practices and use.

Pensionsmyndigheten

Mar 2014 — Aug 2014 · 6 months

Managed the processing platform alongside developers and QA. Application upgrades, Puppet configuration, automation scripting, and major quarterly production releases.

Comhem AB

Dec 2012 — Dec 2013 · 1 year

Linux System Administrator working with Puppet. Evaluated and set up new configuration management for network infrastructure.

Point Transaction Systems AB

2011 — 2012 · 1 year

Linux PCI-DSS team managing Red Hat and CentOS environments for card payment processing. Set up Nagios monitoring and OSSEC host-based intrusion detection.

PuppetLinuxNagiosOSSECRed HatCentOS

Education

Nackademin

2007 — 2009

Vocational Training (KY, 2 years) — Linux and Network

Kärrtorps Gymnasium

2004 — 2007

Technical Programme - CCNA

Blog

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How to Actually Get Things Done with Claude Code

A practical guide to configuring Claude Code, planning projects properly, and not just vibing your way into chaos.

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