Simon Baier
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at baind
Ringelai, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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RockstarSimon Baier is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native, everything-as-code platforms and improving production reliability. Based in Bavaria, he moved from an eight-year Site Reliability Engineer role at HiveMQ to a senior infrastructure position at baind, bringing deep operational expertise in distributed systems. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like the HiveMQ community MQTT broker, where his work on keep-alive handling, topic validation, and trace logging reflects a focus on stability, observability, and code quality. Comfortable in both software development and platform engineering, he bridges backend Java fixes with infrastructure automation and monitoring practices. Colleagues know him for pragmatic improvements that reduce operational risk while making systems easier to understand and debug.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
mqtt10
javas10
logging10
broker10
brokers10
java10
mqttnet10
testing10
debug9
unit-testing9
debugging9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
hivemq/hivemq-community-edition
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
HiveMQ CE is a Java-based open source MQTT broker that fully supports MQTT 3.x and MQTT 5. It is the foundation of the HiveMQ Enterprise Connectivity and Messaging Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 17 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 days
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the HiveMQ MQTT broker by fixing bugs and improving code quality related to keep-alive mechanisms and topic length handling. They modified Java code within the `ConnectHandler` class, addressing the handling of keep-alive values, and within the `IncomingPublishService`, improving the validation of topic lengths. Additionally, the user added trace logging for keep-alive events and updated unit tests, suggesting a focus on stability and logging improvements.
mqtt-servermqtt-brokerhivemqconnectivitymqtt-protocol
sbaier1/pyttv
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
A tool for generating (music-)videos using generative models
Contributions:104 commits, 33 PRs, 68 pushes in 5 months
pythongenerative-artvideosgenerativevideo
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