Simon Kuenzer
CTO, Managing Director, And Co-Founder at Unikraft
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSimon Kuenzer is a technology leader and co-founder with 12 years of experience building ultra-efficient, cloud-native systems and is currently CTO and Managing Director at Unikraft. He created and continues to lead the Unikraft open-source project, which focuses on true serverless technology and delivers sub-10ms cold boots and dramatically improved server efficiency. Simon blends deep systems and OS knowledge from his studies at KIT and ongoing PhD work with hands-on product and company building. He is based in Heidelberg and known for turning research-grade virtualization ideas into production-ready tooling that eliminates idle costs. As a maintainer-founder he navigates both developer communities and commercial strategy, bridging lower-level performance optimization with go-to-market execution. Colleagues describe him as someone who prizes measurable efficiency gains and pragmatic engineering over theoretical elegance alone.
12 years of coding experience
PhD Student Computer Science, PhD Student Computer Science at University of LiègeDipl.-Inform. Betriebssysteme Robotik und Automation Entrepreneurship und Marketing, Dipl.-Inform. Betriebssysteme Robotik und Automation Entrepreneurship und Marketing at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
German, English
Github Skills (200)
security10
vms10
elf10
unikernel10
cloud-native10
binary-compatibility10
operating-system10
qemu10
linux10
newlib10
virtualization10
application10
osdev10
kernel10
posix10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
unikraft/lib-newlib
Apr 2019 - Jul 2021
Unikraft port of newlib, a C standard library
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 3 months
libcnewlibunikraftstandard-library
skuenzer/app-elfloader
Mar 2021 - Mar 2024
Load and execute Linux ELF binaries
Contributions:63 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years
linuxelf-binarieselfbinariesmacho
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.