Graza Andersson

Software Architect / Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Software Architect/Engineer with over 18 years of industry experience spanning data analysis, project management, software engineering, platform engineering and architecture. Proven track record designing and delivering open-source cloud infrastructure tooling and SaaS products in Go and .NET. Strong advocate for infrastructure as code, open-source collaboration and clean software design.

Experience

Turbot

07/2025 - Present

Software Architect

Architect and Lead Engineer on Turbot Pipes, a cloud intelligence and automation SaaS platform.

  • Designed and implemented features for Turbot Pipes, a customer-facing SaaS platform for cloud infrastructure management
  • Integrated backend systems across the Turbot product ecosystem
  • Collaborated on architecture decisions for scalability, reliability and security

Turbot

05/2023 - 07/2025

Senior Software Engineer

Core engineer across multiple open-source cloud infrastructure tools built in Go.

  • Developed improvements and plugins for Steampipe, a tool for querying cloud APIs with SQL
  • Core engineer on Flowpipe, a workflow automation platform using HCL, and its associated mods
  • Core engineer on Tailpipe, a SIEM tool leveraging DuckDB and Parquet, and its associated plugins
  • Contributed to Powerpipe improvements and compliance/security mods
  • Delivered significant cost savings through various ideas including migration of container infrastructure from GCP to GHCR
  • Actively engaged with the open-source community on contributions, issues and collaboration

APS Group

02/2020 - 04/2023

Platform Engineer

Member of the centralised Platform Team responsible for infrastructure, CI/CD and cloud operations.

  • Managed CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code using Terraform (cloud) and Ansible (on-premise)
  • Maintained and optimised Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS
  • Implemented cost optimisation strategies, observability standards and governance policies
  • Managed SSO and IdP integrations across the organisation
  • Developed custom Terraform providers and Steampipe plugins in Go

APS Group

02/2013 - 02/2020

Senior Software Engineer

Senior engineer leading architecture and system design for in-house and external software products.

  • Led architecture and system design across in-house and client-facing software
  • Coordinated a large integration and unification project with the Netherlands office
  • Introduced TDD practices and containerised deployments with Docker
  • Mentored junior team members and led technical research into microservices and DDD

Equinox

08/2012 - 01/2013

Software Developer

  • Maintained and modernised legacy web applications to MVC architecture
  • Worked with Entity Framework, jQuery and KnockoutJS across the full stack

APS Group

10/2011 - 07/2012

Software Developer

  • Continued development on the internal software suite
  • Researched and prototyped next-generation SPA/MVC and REST API approaches

APS Group

04/2009 - 10/2011

Systems Analyst & Developer

  • Built a rules engine for POS allocations for retail clients
  • Maintained and enhanced the internal software suite
  • Co-designed an automated reporting system

APS Group

08/2008 - 04/2009

Project Manager

  • Managed client onboarding for digital system integrations and data migrations
  • Coordinated cross-functional teams to meet project deadlines
  • Gathered requirements and scoped technical deliverables

APS Group

01/2007 - 08/2008

Data Analyst

  • Maintained data integrity across systems and produced consolidated invoicing, MI and KPIs

Freelance

08/2005 - 01/2007

Freelance Developer

  • Delivered freelance web development projects using PHP frameworks (Kohana, CodeIgniter)

Education

Lancaster & Morecambe College

09/2003 - 06/2005

BTEC National Diploma Software Development

Ashton on Mersey School

09/2000 - 06/2003

Secondary Education 10 GCSEs

References

Graza is one of the most skilled & reliable people I've worked with - always committed and driven to do a fantastic job. Before joining Turbot he was an incredibly helpful and active member of our open source community, making significant contributions and working in close collaboration with us. At Turbot, he designed, built and managed significant customer facing systems like Turbot Pipes. His expertise and responsiveness across the full stack of infrastructure, backend code and even the front end is incredible. Graza is always watching, learning and reflecting on how to make things better. Definitely someone you want to be in the trenches with!
— Nathan Wallace, Founder & CEO at Turbot
Available on request.
— Additional References