Linus Ellqvist — IT Technician // NorthX Biologics

Linus Ellqvist.

IT Technician / NorthX Biologics / Matfors HQ

Sysadmin · Network · Security · Automation · Full-Stack Dev · Systems Implementation

IT Technician at Sweden's national innovation hub for advanced biologics — keeping the systems behind cell & gene therapy reliable, validated, and a little smarter every quarter. Infrastructure, security, automation, and the occasional controlled chaos.

Calm and collected, with a problem-solving habit and a bias for finding the opportunity in something messy. I care about growth — owning hard problems, learning new domains, and making things measurably better.

Honest flaw: I deep-dive. I'll spend the extra hour chasing the root cause when a quick patch would do. Working on calling the trade-off out loud sooner.

Off the clock — wife, two kids, and most evenings on the floor playing with them. I build games on the side, handle my own work around the house, and treat gardening as the analog reset between IT problems.

Operating Domains

Infrastructure & Virtualization

vSphere · Hyper-V · Proxmox

Network & Perimeter

Meraki · Cisco · Barracuda

Identity & Endpoint

Entra · Intune · Defender

Security & Compliance

Pen-Test · GxP · 21 CFR Part 11

Automation & Dev

PowerShell · Python · C#

AI Tooling & Integration

Open-weight · LLMs · Azure Functions

Working Principle

“Good technology helps. Good habits scale better.”

The best IT work is rarely visible — it saves time, removes friction, and keeps everything moving. I like fixing the cause, not the symptom.

Selected Operations

MIG

Conducted domain, system & ISP migrations — bare-metal-to-virtual transitions and zero-downtime cutovers at the HQ site.

PLT

Implemented enterprise-grade platforms and solutions end-to-end: scoping, deployment, integration, and handover.

GxP

Administer ~30 GMP-classified computerized systems under FDA GMP & 21 CFR Part 11.

SEC

Run vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and phishing-awareness campaigns with simulated attacks and follow-up training.

AI · DEV

Designed and shipped cross-department software, bots and automation on Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, LLM integrations, and Azure Functions middleware — quietly retiring manual workload across the company.