Philip Kozeny
CTO & Co-Founder at Symvaro GmbH
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Kozeny is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with nine years of experience steering Symvaro as CTO, where he architects cloud-native solutions for water utilities and operationalizes product roadmaps into award-winning offerings. With a Master's in Management Information Systems from Universität Klagenfurt, he blends management insight with hands-on engineering, particularly in infrastructure, CI/CD, and database tuning. His open-source DevOps work includes substantial contributions to a widely used Nominatim Docker project, improving containerization, automated builds, PostgreSQL performance tuning, and continuous replication. Philip’s background ranges from project management to early engineering internships, giving him a pragmatic, full-lifecycle perspective on product delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems thinker who turns complex operational constraints into resilient, automatable platforms.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Management Information Systems and Services, Master's degree Management Information Systems and Services at Universität Klagenfurt
English, German
Github Skills (10)
github-ci10
bash10
docker10
postgresql10
githubaction-workflow10
dockers10
cicd10
replication9
infrastructure-as-code9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mediagis/nominatim-docker
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
100% working container for Nominatim
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:44 reviews, 153 commits, 149 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to setting up and maintaining the infrastructure for the Nominatim project. Their work included modifying Docker-related scripts, configuring environment variables, and integrating various components, especially in versions 3.4 to 4.2. They also made configuration adjustments, specifically in relation to PostgreSQL tuning, and added functionality to facilitate automated builds and deployments using the CI/CD pipeline. The user also appears to be responsible for setting up and configuring continuous replication processes.
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philipkozeny/nominatim-docker
Oct 2019 - Apr 2025
100% working container for Nominatim
Contributions:2 PRs, 104 pushes, 71 branches in 5 years 6 months
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