Summary
Kristofer Tingdahl is an engineering director and generalist technology leader with 26 years’ experience who currently runs IT and SaaS operations at Canonical, ensuring Ubuntu is built, secured and distributed at scale. He pairs deep technical roots in geoscience, parallel/GPU processing and CI-driven software production with senior product and operations leadership—having risen from intern to CEO at a geoscience software company and later led product and cloud strategy for civil-enforcement SaaS. Skilled at navigating ambiguity, he makes pragmatic decisions across cloud architecture, security audits (ISAE 3402/ISO27001), ERP migrations and vendor negotiations. A former Sergeant First Class who produced situation reports in UN operations, he brings disciplined stakeholder communication and experience managing global teams across four continents.
26 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Alléskolan
Centralskolan, Laxå kommun
University of Gothenburg
Geodesi, Geodesi at Uppsala University
Swedish, English, Dutch