Simon Gerber
DevOps Engineer at VSHN AG - The DevOps Company
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Gerber is a DevOps engineer with 16 years of experience bridging systems research and production operations, currently building resilient cloud-native platforms at VSHN AG. He earned a PhD from ETH Zurich studying operating system memory management and brings deep expertise in memory and resource management for modern, heterogeneous hardware. Simon pairs academic rigor with hands-on DevOps, contributing to open-source tooling like Kapitan where he improved dependency handling, parallel fetch stability, and external input integrations. His background includes internships at HP Labs and embedded firmware work at Sensirion, reflecting a pragmatic comfort across low-level systems and large-scale infrastructure. Known for focusing on practical, reproducible solutions, he blends OS design thinking with automation to tame complex deployment and resource challenges.
16 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at ETH Zürich
English, German
Github Skills (11)
dependency-management10
terraformer10
kubernetes10
docker10
devops10
python10
dockers10
terraform10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
yaml8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kapicorp/kapitan
Dec 2019 - Oct 2022
Generic templated configuration management for Kubernetes, Terraform and other things
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 7 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to improving the stability and functionality of the `kapitan` project by addressing issues related to dependency management and build processes. They fixed a bug in dependency fetching that caused `FileExistsError` during parallel downloads and implemented a fix to handle the `application/gzip` content type for dependency unpacking. Additionally, the user enhanced the `external` input type by implementing variable substitution and propagation of environment variables, thereby streamlining the integration of external tools within the compilation process.
pythonaws-kmsgcp-kmsyamljinja2
projectsyn/component-secret-generator
Jan 2022 - Jan 2025
Commodore component for Secret Generator
Contributions:19 reviews, 22 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years
commodore-componentsecretprojectsyncommodoresyn
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