Christian Simon
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Simon is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience, currently shaping observability and platform tooling at Grafana Labs after rising through senior engineering roles. He combines deep Unix/Linux administration, DevOps and networking expertise from a long tenure in web agencies and systems roles with formal computer science training (MSc) from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. His background as a solutions engineer at Jetstack and early operations/sysadmin roles give him a strong practical grounding in Kubernetes, automation and production reliability. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture and incident mitigation as much as for feature delivery. He also maintains a research-oriented mindset—listed as a Research Scientist on GitHub—bridging applied engineering with experimental approaches to performance and scalability. Based in England, he pairs hands-on technical leadership with a knack for translating complex infrastructure constraints into dependable, scalable systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenHigh School Physics & Chemistry, High School Physics & Chemistry at Gymnasium Hilpoltstein
German, English
Github Skills (6)
incremental-learning3
batch-normalization3
classification2
meta-learning1
audio1
benchmarking1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chrysts/geodesic_continual_learning
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
This is a public repository for:
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
chrysts/generative_preconditioner
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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