Simon Gander
Betriebsdirektorin (COO) at Frei
Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarSimon Gander is a Swiss operations leader and technologist with eight years of experience bridging hands-on engineering and executive management as COO and Geschäftsführer at Frei. He combines business operations oversight with a developer's mindset, having contributed to low-level back-end work like improving an APFS FUSE driver—fixing Windows compatibility issues and implementing decryption—to make robust cross-platform tooling. Based in Switzerland, he excels at turning complex technical problems into operationally reliable solutions and is comfortable diving into debugging and core-system improvements when needed. His profile reflects a rare mix of C-level responsibility and active open-source contribution, indicating both strategic leadership and technical credibility.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
windows10
filesystem10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
apfs10
encryption10
driver9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sgan81/apfs-fuse
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
FUSE driver for APFS (Apple File System)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 8 PRs, 72 pushes in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the core functionality of the APFS-fuse driver. Their work involved implementing and fixing bugs related to Windows compatibility. They also worked on implementing decryption and improving the file system's core components through debugging, and incorporating additional features to enhance functionality. This included addressing various bugs and making code modifications to facilitate more robust processing.
apfsdrivermountfusefuse-driver
sgan81/fsdump
Sep 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
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