Passionate about the intersection of people, communication, and technology. Interested in databases, low-level software, 3D modeling/design, and open source communities. Dual US/Canadian Citizen.
Contact
Mastodon
@linux_mclinuxface@fosstodon.org
GitHub
stockholmux
Location
Edmonton,
Alberta
Canada
Work
Amazon Web Services
Senior Developer Advocate / Valkey
2024
— Present
- Instrumental in establishing Valkey as a new Linux Foundation project.
- Designed and executed a cross-organizational open source strategy.
- Coordinated activities with organizations such as Tecent, Alibaba, Google, Oracle, Percona, Huawei, Ericsson, & Aiven.
- Developed and executed 1st and 3rd party event plans.
- Served as editor and coordinator for technical content.
- Maintained relationship with project technical steering committee.
- Managed multi-million dollar marketing services contract.
Senior Developer Advocate / Bottlerocket & Finch
2022
— 2024
- Served on leadership team.
- Led project documentation.
- Advised on open source strategy.
- Represented project at conferences.
- Established community meeting series.
- Launched the Finch project.
- Coordinated team conference presence.
Senior Developer Advocate / OpenSearch
2020
— 2022
- Facilitated the forking of Elasticsearch into OpenSearch.
- Established open source strategy.
- Led community meetings.
- Managed artifact releases.
- Edited blog and content pipeline.
- Coordinated external partnerships.
Redis Labs
Head of Developer Advocacy, Technical Marketing Manager (2017)
2017
— 2020
- Managed 2 Developer Advocates.
- Facilitated conference trainings & technical workshops.
- Wrote monthly newsletter.
- Wrote book Redis Microservices for Dummies (Wiley).
- Managed the production of Redis for Dummies (Wiley).
- Authored regular technical blog posts.
- Created technical decks to illustrate product capabilities.
- Provided feedback and community information to engineering.
- Served as subject matter expert for product.
- Served as general product spokesperson for media.
- Wrote technical content for web pages and gated assets.
- Produced white papers.
- Assisted with technical analyst relations.
- Produced animated feature videos.
- Wrote and maintained feature demos.
Education
University of Central Missouri
2004
— 2006
College Student Personnel Administration, Master’s of Science
Södertörn högskola
2002
— 2002
Various courses
University of Southern Indiana
1999
— 2002
Computer Publishing and Telecommunications, Bachelor’s of Science
Technical Skills
- Containers 7 years
- Firebase 2 years
- HTML 27 years
- Hugo 2 year
- Javascript 25 years
- Jekyll 2 year
- Kubernetes 3 year
- Linux 12 years
- Python 9 years
- OCaml 1 year
- OpenSCAD 4 years
- OpenSearch 2 years
- Redis 8 years
- Rust 1 year
- SQL 18 years
- Valkey 1.5 years
- WASM 1 year
- Zola 1.5 year
Other Skills
- Public speaking (extensive)
- Open Source Strategy
- Writing & Editing
- Illustration & Diagraming
- Animation
- Screencasting
- Graphic Design
- 3D Modeling & Design
Languages
English
Native speaker
Swedish
Limited working proficiency, 1.5 years classwork