Simon Koudijs
Founder And Software Engineer at ConfigButler
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Koudijs is a founder and software engineer with 23 years of experience helping teams improve software delivery through practical CI/CD, platform engineering, Kubernetes, GitOps, test automation, and AI-enabled workflows. He consults, trains, and speaks via koudijs.dev and builds ConfigButler to explore API-first, schema-driven configuration and developer experience—turning deep ideas like Reverse GitOps into usable product features. His background ranges from embedded systems and IoT to cloud-native architectures, giving him a rare perspective on the trade-offs between product needs, team structure, and operational complexity. Simon favors clarity over hype, focusing on pragmatic, repeatable solutions that prevent teams from reinventing the same infrastructure. Based in the Randstad, he combines hands-on engineering with product sensibility to make platform decisions that actually suit scale and culture.
23 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at HAN University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (156)
security10
iis10
winrm10
exchange10
rds10
http-server10
letsencrypt9
continuous-delivery9
acme9
pipeline9
golang9
cli9
pgp9
reverse-proxy9
encrypt9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
intellifi-nl/push-doc
Dec 2014 - Jan 2016
Documentation on events and how to acquire them.
Contributions:36 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 1 month
events
sunib/bin-archiver
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 1 push in 3 months
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