Buster Styren
Senior Full Stack Engineer with 9+ years of experience. I have built large scale data platforms, a multi-tenant cloud provider and multiple high throughput API backends. These days I'm mostly interested in data and cloud infrastructure.
EQT
Software Engineer
(April 2024 - Current)
DrHud
Lead Engineer
(May 2023 - April 2024)
- Built the initial platform in NextJS/NestJS on Google Cloud
- Integrated an electronic health record (EHR) into the platform (Webdoc)
Symbiosis
Founder
(March 2022 - Oct 2023)
- Built the fastest and cheapest Kubernetes platform, outperforming competitors like AWS and DigitalOcean on initialization and resource utilization benchmarks
- Offered fully automated, highly available Kubernetes environments with load balancing, distributed storage and computing services
- Created a blog that was regularly featured in some of the largest Kubernetes newsletters and podcasts
Utopia
Engineering Manager
(Oct 2021 - March 2022)
Our teams were responsible for the capture, processing and data enrichment of multiple media sources, including tens of thousands of radio stations.
- Established code reviews and retrospectives in my teams to encourage a culture of continuous improvement
- Improved the throughput in our dev recruitment pipeline by sourcing candidates from external agencies
Netlight
Associate Manager
(Dec 2018 - Oct 2021)
Kry
Engineering Manager
(March 2020 - Oct 2022)
- Led global effort to educate developers on microservice development by organizing lunch- &-learns and a half year long course with Chris Richardson
- Established the markets architecture working group responsible for setting global architecture guidelines
Tui
Data Engineer
(Sep 2019 - March 2020)
- Introduced DBT to manage our data modeling directly in code
- Built their first online ML model used to recommend related trips to users based on real-time web analytics
- Introduced code reviews, pull requests, integration testing and CI to the team to reduce change failure rate and improve productivity
Volvo On-demand
Backend Engineer
(Jun 2019 - Aug 2019)
I was part of the team developing and launching the M Business service.
Tech stack: Spring Boot, Kotlin, GCP, GraphQL.
Reason Studios
Backend Engineer
(Jan 2019 - Jun 2019)
I was contracted to improve the performance of their website in preparation for a big launch.
On the project I worked closely with Redshift, Django, React, Ansible, Kinesis, Serverless, ECS and Terraform.
Retmind
Data Engineer
(Jan 2019 - Jun 2019)
Retmind was an AI research project with Karolinska Institutet.
We build a model that reduced the time spent diagnosing patients in the risk zone for Choriodal Melanoma by 70%.
Brandie
Lead Engineer
(May 2016 - Jan 2018)
Worked as the lead engineer for Brandie, a startup building an influencer marketing platform for the Indian market.
Used technologies including NGINX, NodeJS/Express, Postgres, AWS and Docker.
Web/Backend
Data
Cloud Infrastructure
Languages
M.Sc. Computer Science (2011-2016)
KTH, Stockholm