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Victor Zito Panom

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About

DevOps and platform engineer: Kubernetes, Azure, Go, Python.

I build and run Kubernetes platforms and the tooling around them. In IT since 2016, programming since 2011. I write mostly Python and Go, and automate in Bash and PowerShell.

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Fullstack and platform developer, Aurora (via Accelerate)

2025 - present

Built Aurora's internal developer portal: an Angular frontend and a Go BFF, running on Kubernetes on OpenStack. Owned its deployment pipeline with Flux GitOps and in-house Helm charts, and built a Coder-based developer platform that gives every developer the same self-service environment.

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DevOps Engineer, Accelerate at Iver

2023 - present, employed by ELITS/Accelerate since Nov 2022

Run and extend a customer's Kubernetes clusters. Write custom cluster tooling in Go, define infrastructure in Terraform wired into GitHub CI/CD, ship applications as Helm charts, and keep the cluster VMs on a common baseline with Ansible and cloud-init. Built an internal developer platform (IDP) on top of the clusters.

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Azure Infrastructure Specialist, Fingerprint Cards

2020 - 2022

Owned the Azure cloud (VMs, networks, VPN tunnels, HPC, storage) and co-managed three vSphere clusters. Automated the HR-to-Active Directory sync in PowerShell, built a certificate enrolment API for Linux machines, and was part of the SOC team that reached a 77% Microsoft Secure Score.

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IT Consultant, ECSIT

2019 - 2020

Spent six months installing store systems for Fujitsu (registers, scanners, UPS, servers), then helped rebuild the IT environment at Fingerprint Cards from scratch.

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System developer, Trafikkontoret, City of Gothenburg

2018

Built "Vägarbeten Live", a GPS-based live map of road works in Gothenburg (JavaScript, PHP, MySQL).

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IT support and operations technician, Castellum

2016 - 2019

All-round support and operations: networks, Office 365, Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and Active Directory. Wrote automation scripts in PowerShell.

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Support technician, Netflix/Transcom

2015 - 2016

First-line end-user support in Riga. Trained new hires at the end of my time there.

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Education

  • Upper secondary school, Technology programme (Data/IT), Östrabo 1 (2011 - 2014)

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Certifications

  • HashiCorp SE 101 Accreditation (2022)
  • Cisco ICND1 (2018)

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Aurora developer portal

Aurora, 2025

Internal developer portal: Angular and a Go BFF on Kubernetes, deployed with Flux GitOps and Helm, integrated with a Coder developer platform.

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Azure Batch HPC migration

Fingerprint Cards, 2021

Moved HPC workloads to Azure Batch in the US. Built the networks and IPsec tunnels, kept all data out of the EU, and wrote a Python script, run from Jenkins, that creates each job's pools and VMs on demand and removes them afterwards, so nothing runs between jobs.

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Racktables to NetBox

Fingerprint Cards, 2021

Replaced Racktables with NetBox for IPAM/DCIM: new server in Azure set up with Ansible, SSO through Azure AD, data exported, transformed and imported.

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Vägarbeten Live

Trafikkontoret, 2018

A GPS-based live map of road works in Gothenburg.

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Python

Azure Batch HPC automation and the Racktables to NetBox data migration.

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PowerShell

HR-to-Active Directory sync and a certificate enrolment API at Fingerprint Cards, automation scripts at Castellum.

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Go

The BFF of the internal developer portal and custom Kubernetes tooling for a customer while at Iver.

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TypeScript

The Angular frontend of the internal developer portal.

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JavaScript

A Node.js certificate enrolment API at Fingerprint Cards and "Vägarbeten Live" at Trafikkontoret.

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Kubernetes

Cluster management and tooling at REDACTED.

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Azure

Owned the Azure cloud at Fingerprint Cards (VMs, networks, VPN tunnels, HPC cluster, storage).

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OpenStack

The Kubernetes platform under the internal developer portal.

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Linux

Servers such as the NetBox server, and certificate enrolment for Linux computers at Fingerprint Cards.

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Windows Server

Active Directory and Microsoft servers at Castellum and Fingerprint Cards.

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VMware

Three vSphere clusters at Fingerprint Cards.

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Terraform

Infrastructure as code wired into CI/CD at Iver. HashiCorp SE 101 accredited.

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Helm

Charts and manifests for deployments at Iver and Aurora.

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Flux

The GitOps deployment pipeline for Aurora.

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Ansible

VM baselines with cloud-init at Iver; Azure VMs and the NetBox server at Fingerprint Cards.

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Docker

Application containers at Iver; the containerised Azure Batch runner at Fingerprint Cards.

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GitHub CI/CD

All code and pipelines for Aurora and Iver.

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Jenkins

The pipeline that ran the Azure Batch HPC jobs at Fingerprint Cards.

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Email: victor.zito@panom.se