Simon Bein
Senior Software Engineer at Kubermatic
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Bein is a Senior Software Engineer based in Frankfurt with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms and tooling. He specializes in Kubernetes, DevOps and backend systems—recently enhancing HA monitoring for the widely used Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform by integrating Consul with Cortex and contributing API CRDs and reconciler logic. His background spans enterprise modernization at Deutsche Bank, service mesh and operator development, and hands-on IaC across Azure and AKS using Terraform and Ansible. He has led engineering teams as an Engineering Manager and retains strong individual contributor skills in Golang, Prometheus/Grafana, and CI/CD pipelines. Outside work he’s a runner and cyclist who appreciates a good moustache—hinting at discipline and a touch of personality in his engineering approach.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Wirtschaftsinformatik / Business Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Wirtschaftsinformatik / Business Information Technology at Frankfurt School of Finance & ManagementSan Diego State University
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
helm9
cluster-api8
prometheus8
yaml8
cicd8
consul7
cluster-manager7
api7
clustering7
apidoc7
lokijs6
cloki6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kubermatic/kubermatic
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform - the Central Kubernetes Management Platform For Any Infrastructure
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:152 reviews, 26 commits, 54 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on enhancing the High Availability (HA) of Prometheus within the Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform by incorporating Consul for Cortex. They implemented changes to the deployment configuration, configmaps, and reconciler to support HA Prometheus for MLA (Monitoring, Logging, and Alerting). Additionally, the user contributed to adding the ApplicationInstallation CRD and related code generation, and included validation for these newly generated resources, signifying involvement in API development and deployment automation.
kubermatic-kubernetes-platformkubermaticcluster-apiinfrastructurek8s
SimonTheLeg/dotfiles
Jun 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 97 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
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