Simon Denel
DevOps Platform - CODE&BUILD Team Lead
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSimon Denel is a DevOps platform leader with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading the CODE&BUILD team at Richemont in Geneva. He combines deep AWS and Kubernetes expertise with a background in backend development and embedded systems (MSc ENS Paris-Saclay), enabling pragmatic automation of build, deploy and security pipelines. His career spans roles from machine-learning and IIoT back-end work to founding a tooling startup and contributing specialized tooling for defensive security teams, showing an unusual mix of research-grade systems work and product-focused delivery. Known for automating operational pain points—SSL lifecycle, CI/CD platform enablement and preventive infra maintenance—he thrives on turning complex distributed systems into reliable developer-facing platforms.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Embedded Computing Systems, With highest honors, Master's degree, Embedded Computing Systems, With highest honors at École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (146)
gbm10
xgboost10
dataflow10
python10
deep-learning10
visual-studio10
portable10
editor10
gradient10
gradient-boosting10
ml10
neural-network10
scalable10
electron10
data-science10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sdenel/pdftotext-docker-rest
Aug 2018 - Oct 2021
pdftotext. As a webservice, containerized!
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 3 months
pdfwebservicepdftotextcontainerizeddocker
sdenel/monaco.ttf
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021
The monaco font improved: add special characters in monaco.ttf
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years 9 months
improvedmonacospecial-charactersfontttf
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