Simon Johansson
Lead Platform Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Johansson is a Lead Platform Engineer based in Berlin with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms across publishing and enterprise teams. He has progressed through multiple senior platform roles at Springer Nature and Pivotal, combining hands-on engineering in Kotlin, Go, Python and Java with infrastructure expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloud Foundry and Concourse. Simon’s background spans platform automation (Chef/Ansible), observability (ELK, logging enhancements) and production-grade CI/CD, and he’s contributed practical improvements to the Cloud Foundry ecosystem around router and collector functionality. Comfortable bridging backend services and platform concerns, he has also delivered full-stack features using Spring Boot, TypeScript and React in shorter product-focused stints. Known for adapting configurations to changing environments, he brings pragmatic, test-focused changes that reduce operational friction. He pairs a Chalmers Computer Science education with a proven track record of evolving platform reliability at scale.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology
English, Swedish
Github Skills (13)
configuration-management10
cloud-foundry10
yaml10
testing9
acceptance-testing9
logging9
gorouter9
automation8
automations8
infrastructure-as-code8
automatic8
automator8
automaton8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry-attic/cf-release
Mar 2014 - Aug 2015
Deprecated: Cloud Foundry Release
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon's contributions center around configuring and enhancing the Cloud Foundry release, specifically focusing on collector and router components. Their work includes modifying configuration templates, adding logging levels, and extending the functionality of the acceptance tests. They have also implemented changes to the router to incorporate extra headers for logging. The user appears to be involved in adapting the configurations to a changing environment.
foundrycloud-foundrycloudfoundrypcfalibabacloud
cloudfoundry-community/firehose-to-syslog
Dec 2014 - Sep 2015
Send firehose events from Cloud Foundry to syslog.
Contributions:8 releases, 108 commits, 35 PRs in 8 months
foundryeventscloud-foundrysyslogcloudfoundry
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