Axel Simon
Solutions Architect at StackHPC
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAxel Simon is a solutions architect with 11+ years building secure, open-source and decentralised systems, currently shaping trusted research and HPC environments at StackHPC. He brings deep product-to-community experience from roles at Element and Red Hat, where he helped grow projects like Keylime, sigstore and Enarx and defined practical software supply-chain and confidential computing approaches. Comfortable bridging business, engineering and advocacy, Axel has a finance-informed mindset and a track record running pre-sales, customer success and security processes for complex cloud and communications stacks. Beyond engineering, he’s an active community builder—helping La Quadrature du Net campaigns and organising 90+ concerts with an independent promoter—demonstrating resilience, operational grit and a knack for turning grassroots energy into tangible outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
semester abroad, Management, semester abroad, Management at Thammasat UniversityMaster 2, Gestion des télécoms et des nouveaux médias, Master 2, Gestion des télécoms et des nouveaux médias at Université Paris Dauphine - PSLJapanese, Japanese at INALCO
English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese
Github Skills (15)
security10
mtls10
tls1210
python10
tls1310
libtls10
logging9
open-source8
attestation8
tpm7
edgejs6
cloud-computing6
edges6
microsoft-edge6
iot5
Programming languages (42)
Github contributions (5)
keylime/keylime
Jul 2019 - Feb 2022
A CNCF Project to Bootstrap & Maintain Trust on the Edge / Cloud and IoT
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 16 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Axel primarily focused on improving the security aspects of the Keylime project. Their contributions included making TLS warnings more explicit, addressing potential vulnerabilities in the tenant and revocation notifier components, and making changes to the logging configuration to provide better security information. They also modified the project's code, likely to improve the clarity of security-related messages.
bootstrapiottpmattestationima
axelsimon/enarx
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
Tools for deploying WebAssembly into Enarx Keeps.
Contributions:21 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 6 months
deployingwasmwebassemblyenarx
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