Summary
Simon Ivanšek is a Senior CloudOps Engineer with 12 years in software engineering and over 6 years focused on AWS, known for scaling Kubernetes-based infrastructures to support 55M+ active connections. He has strong hands-on experience migrating EC2 workloads to EKS with Helm and Terraform, building CI/CD pipelines in Python, and implementing comprehensive observability stacks (Prometheus, Thanos, Alertmanager) tied to incident workflows. At Plume he managed multiple clouds for a Tier 1 ISP and automated procedures to improve deployment accuracy, and now drives SOC 2, security, and observability efforts at DuploCloud. A former project leader on serverless and research projects at XLAB, he combines academic depth (MSc Computer Science) with practical expertise across cloud, monitoring, and operational runbooks. Notably, his work bridges low-level deployment automation and high-level compliance needs, making him effective at turning complex infrastructure and security requirements into repeatable, auditable operations.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science and Informatics, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Master of Computer Science and Informatics, Computer and Information Sciences, General at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science
Computer Engineer, Computer Engineering, Computer Engineer, Computer Engineering at ERSŠG Ljubljana, Vegova Ljubljana
Slovenian, English