Simon Aronsson
Senior Engineering Manager at Arctic Bit
Norrköping, Sweden
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Top SchoolSimon Aronsson is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Norrköping, Sweden, with 11 years of experience building engineering organizations and platform capabilities focused on observability and reliability. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source projects like Grafana’s k6 operator and documentation—with leadership roles at Canonical and as Head of Developer Relations for k6/Grafana. Simon has founded Arctic Bit to deliver consultancy in software architecture, agile coaching and systems design, demonstrating a blend of entrepreneurial drive and delivery focus. His background spans DevOps, CI/CD automation, and notification tooling, including meaningful contributions to widely-used projects such as Watchtower and Shoutrrr. Known for “preventing computers from going boom,” he emphasizes pragmatic, testable systems and developer experience in production environments. Colleagues describe him as a technical manager who still ships code, writes docs, and enjoys turning observability into a product advantage.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at Dalarna University
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Github Skills (40)
apim10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
api-design10
testing10
loadtest10
kubernetes-operator10
continuous-delivery10
go-testing10
dockers10
cicd10
performance-testing10
regular-expression10
automation10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
containrrr/watchtower
Apr 2019 - Sep 2022
A process for automating Docker container base image updates.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:12 releases, 91 reviews, 253 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on improving the project's CI/CD pipeline and automating the build and deployment processes. They made significant changes to the CI workflow, migrating from Glide to Go modules and rewriting the CI workflow. These changes included updating the goreleaser configuration, adding test reporting, and adding labels to released docker images. Further contributions included fixing merge conflicts, and refactoring.
devopsbase-imagedockerupdatesnotifications
grafana/k6-operator
Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
An operator for running distributed k6 tests.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 12 reviews, 16 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Simon's contributions center around developing a Kubernetes operator for k6, a load testing tool. They've made initial commits that set up the basic structure of the operator, including the controller and associated resources. The user's work involves defining custom resource definitions (CRDs), managing job creation and starting processes, and coordinating the different k6 test runners. The commits also include code generation steps, indicating an understanding of the Kubernetes API and operator patterns.
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