Kristofer Widholm (apotek)

Kristofer started working with the "World Wide Web" in 1995, creating static HTML 1.0 files for the Mosaic browser to support the public information office he was working for. After a while, he began to manage the company's web server and picked up further knowledge of JavaScript, and then CSS was developed. He then moved into CGI programming with Perl and picked up PHP, building several enterprise content management systems by hand before discovering Drupal and never again having to re-write a user authentication system from scratch.

He has worked with enormous content and infrastructure migration projects for MTV, VH1, Logo Online, Martha Stewart and Theatermania, and has worked for CBS, Businessweek, Marketwatch and others, usually with an eye towards content management, application architecture, and data.

Besides skills in PHP and Drupal, Kristofer has worked with WordPress, node.js services, GraphQL, and Java (Dynamo/JSP). He has engineered, maintained and designed both on-premises monolithic server stacks and micro-service-based cloud infrastructures.

https://keybase.io/apotek

Professional Summary

• 24+ years of professional technical experience in Website development, management, and information design
• Hands-on experience with large-scale infrastructure migrations, upgrades, and code management, as well as building service-oriented dynamic applications from data and object
  models on up to front-end libraries and design
• Extremely methodical and detail-oriented
• Excellent ability to analyze and foresee potential problems stemming from platform scale as well as code attrition
• Experience in both branding-oriented and service-oriented Web projects
• Excellent verbal and written skills; presentation skills; good people skills

Specialties: 

Data and framework migrations, full-stack architecture design both to on-premises hardware and cloud services. I can troubleshoot issues from CSS layout to application errors, DNS and networking issues, and server configuration issues. I have successfully designed and deployed complex web server and service architectures in AWS using configuration management tools like Ansible to manage those deployments. I regularly work with shell scripting, Object-oriented PHP, Drupal, WordPress, JavaScript (node and front-end JS), and advanced SQL. I have experience working with XML and XSL as well as JSON and YAML-based data interchange and have done relational database design and built several green-field projects, including custom CMSs, e-commerce, and web services APIs. I have built full continuous integration infrastructure (CI) and deployment methodologies.

I do not just love architecting and putting together excellent and legible systems and applications; I thrive on putting together a good team, both challenging & nurturing that team & watching people grow. I encourage and live a no-blame culture where transparency and honest conflict is the norm and where accountability is not based on perfection but on trust. I live these values by owning my projects, by always clearly admitting my mistakes, and by showing rigorous curiosity in everything.