Portrait of Patrik Boström

Patrik Boström

Platform engineer. I build and run cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms and the tooling developers need to ship safely.

Stockholm, Sweden

About

I have spent more than 25 years building and operating production systems, first as a Java developer and architect, and for the last decade and more as a DevOps, Continuous Delivery and platform engineer. Much of my recent work has been in fintech and payments, where reliability, incident response and clear operating practices matter every day.

I like removing manual work, making the path from idea to production visible, and helping teams get to the bottom of hard production problems. I am equally comfortable deep in the platform and in the discussions about where it should go next.

What I work on

Cloud platforms

AWS multi-account foundations, networking, hybrid connectivity, security services, high availability and disaster recovery. GCP as well.

Kubernetes

EKS with Bottlerocket and Karpenter, GitOps with Argo CD, upgrades, and troubleshooting workloads in production.

Infrastructure as code

Reusable Terraform modules, templates and golden paths that many teams can build on.

Continuous Delivery

Pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Jenkins. I have helped several organisations go from release cycles of weeks to hours.

Observability and incidents

Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and ELK. SLOs, alerting, on-call, root cause analysis and the follow-up work that prevents repeats.

AI-assisted operations

Practical use of AI agents in operations, including a Claude-based workflow for structured incident investigation.

Experience

  1. 2023 - present

    DevOps Engineer, Trustly

    AWS and Kubernetes platform for payment systems across 50+ AWS accounts and 12 clusters. Terraform, GitOps, observability, on-call and developer support for application teams.

  2. 2022 - 2023

    Platform Engineer and Product Owner, Worldline

    Built and ran the AWS platform used by engineering teams, owned the platform backlog, and supported PCI compliance and multi-account planning.

  3. 2003 - 2022

    Co-founder and Senior Consultant, Diabol AB

    Consultant, architect and Continuous Delivery specialist for clients in fintech, telecom, gaming, e-health, the public sector and enterprise software. Board member until 2020.

Open source and writing

Outside work

I keep tinkering with automation at home, including a small Kubernetes cluster running on Raspberry Pis.