Simon Kowallik
Principal Solution Engineer at F5
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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SeniorSimon Kowallik is a Principal Solution Engineer with 11 years of experience designing secure, scalable application delivery solutions across on-premises and cloud environments. Based in Düsseldorf, he combines strategic architecture thinking with hands-on engineering to help clients thrive under real-world constraints. At F5 he focuses on bridging product capabilities and customer outcomes, translating complex requirements into operational, auditable deployments. Known among peers as a pragmatic "geek" and hacker, he enjoys both making things work and deliberately breaking them to validate resilience. His approach emphasizes security-by-design and repeatable automation, enabling teams to move faster without sacrificing reliability. Simon’s mix of consulting mindset and deep technical fluency makes him equally at home in boardroom strategy sessions and low-level troubleshooting.
11 years of coding experience
English, German
Github Skills (96)
python10
testing10
http10
f510
flask10
api10
http-request10
json10
http-server10
request-response10
radius-server10
alpine-linux9
api-client9
dockerfile9
docker-container9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
simonkowallik/homebrew-f5
Sep 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
simonkowallik/irulescan
Dec 2022 - Dec 2024
:shield: irulescan - static security analyzer for iRules
Contributions:6 releases, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years
dastdockerdocker-imagef5f5-bigip
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