Philip Nordquist

Platform and DevSecOps engineer in Linköping, Sweden. I work with infrastructure, security, and keeping things running.

Currently at STIM, looking after their platform and security tooling. Before that at ExpressVPN for a few years, working on infrastructure across 3,000+ servers in 100+ countries.

Experience
DevSecOps Engineer Nov 2023 – Present
STIM · Stockholm

Looking after the Kubernetes platform, setting up observability and security tooling, and automating what I can across the infrastructure.

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Staff Operations Engineer Apr 2021 – Jul 2023
ExpressVPN · Hong Kong / Remote

Operations tech lead for product launches, network traffic analysis, and weekly releases across 3,000+ VPN servers.

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Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer Apr 2019 – Apr 2021
ExpressVPN · Hong Kong

Built out Zero-Trust networking, automated identity management, and set up secure remote work for 1,000+ staff when COVID hit.

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IT Infrastructure & Operations Manager Sep 2017 – Apr 2019
Universum · Stockholm

Ran global IT operations and handled the technical side of the acquisition by Stepstone, including migrating all infrastructure.

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IT Engineer Sep 2015 – Sep 2017
ExternIT · Stockholm

Server infrastructure and network configuration for various client environments.

Support Engineer Oct 2014 – Sep 2015
Binero · Stockholm

Technical support for web hosting, DNS, and email.

Education & Certifications
Högskolan i Skövde 2011 – 2014

Computer Game Development & Music

Linköpings Universitet 2008 – 2011

Communication, Media & Society

AWS Solutions Architect, Associate
AWS Cloud Practitioner
Palo Alto Networks PCCSA
Day to day

Mostly Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. I spend a lot of time in AWS and GCP. For observability I lean on Prometheus and Grafana. When something needs automating I'll reach for Python, Go, or Bash depending on what fits.

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