Thomas Steck

Fullstack developer, Nerd, Father, Nature enthusiast, Dog owner

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Currently

Working at IKEA in their data catalog productteam.

Key achievements at IKEA

Designed, built and deployed multiple integrations in a scalable event-driven and cloud native fashion fashion, ensuring efficient data flow and system performance. Certified as a Google Cloud Certified Developer, demonstrating expertise in GCP technologies and best practices. Took part in the Native Clouders Bootcamp, a 9-week training program designed to teach and encourage adoption of modern engineering and cloud practises such as infrastructure as code, ci/cd pipelines, scalable architecture and cost effective resource utilization. Later, I also became one of the core contributers of the program teaching eight more generations of cloud bootcampers totalling more than 150 people. Actively helped recruit and mentor new team members both as system, and software engineers.

Currently researching

Svelte, Sveltekit, SSR, How to build my own 8-bit computer, How to be a great dad

Technical Skills

Programming languages: Python, Typescript, Javascript, SQL, HTML, CSS

Frontend frameworks: Vue, Svelte

Databases: SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle, BigQuery, Firestore, Redis

Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform, Azure

Operating Systems: Linux, Mac

API Design: RESTful, gRPC

Human languages: Swedish, German, English

Misc: Bash, scripting, Docker, GitHub Actions, Infra-as-Code (Terraform, Packer), Observability, Fast typer...

Education

2010–2013 Lund University, B.S. information systems

Bachelor’s degree in information systems at the faculty of economics, 180p

2012 Universiteit Maastricht, Exchange Semester

Exchange semester, focus Information Management & Supply Chain Management

2013-2014 Lund University, M.S. information systems

Master’s degree in in information systems at the faculty of economics, 60p

Certifications

2022 Professional Cloud Developer, Google Cloud, valid until July 2024.

2022 Native Clouders Bootcamper, Google Cloud and IKEA

2016 Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Microsoft

Publications

2014 Near Field Communication Its adoption process and technology acceptance, lup.lub.lu.se | download

Work experience

Stretch Öresund AB

2017–2021 Worked in various industries. Most notably leading leading energy providers in Europe and global furniture seller. Primarily database development, but also backend,frontend work and business intelligence. Primary tech: Oracle, Postgres, Javascript (Vue), Python and Google Cloud Platform.

Hypergene AB

2014–2017 First employee to be hired straight from University. Built, developed and maintained small to large BI solutions. Primary tech: Windows Server, SQL Server, SSIS, Hypergene, Python