Simon Frey
Co-Founder at beansandbytes
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Frey is a Munich-based SRE and security-minded engineering leader with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and AI products. As Co-Founder of Pylehound and CTO at beansandbytes he blends product-focused entrepreneurship with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, and Golang to deliver secure, scalable systems for regulated environments. At JustWatch he led infrastructure teams supporting 50M users, negotiated major cloud contracts, and drove performance gains such as a 20% faster initial load through multi-level caching. An active open-source contributor, he improved Kubernetes crash detection and Slack integrations in the kwatch project, reflecting a pragmatic approach to tooling and incident automation. He pairs technical depth with clear communication—regularly presenting to company leadership—and a hacker-blogger-organiser ethos that surfaces practical improvements across teams.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
English, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
2,719reputation
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Github Skills (19)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
k8s10
slack9
crash-reports9
docker8
dockers8
exiftool6
amazon-dynamodb6
gke-networking6
twilio6
core-web-vitals6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
abahmed/kwatch
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
:eyes: monitor & detect crashes in your Kubernetes(K8s) cluster instantly
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 1 push in 4 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on enhancing the Kubernetes monitoring tool, `kwatch`. Their contributions involved adding new features like ignoring certain container states during crash detection, implementing namespace and reason filtering, and integrating Slack notifications using blocks. They also worked on improving the graceful shutdown handling and configurable parameters for the tool. The changes demonstrate expertise in Kubernetes, Go, and integrating with external services.
monitordiscordgomonitoringk8s
justwatchcom/artificer
Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
Docker image builder for Kubernetes
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
docker-image-builderdocker-imagedockergitlabbuilder
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