Simon Pirschel
DevOps Engineer
Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarSimon Pirschel is a Senior DevOps Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native, containerized platforms across startups and enterprise environments. He combines deep Linux and Python expertise with production-grade skills in Kubernetes, Docker, SaltStack, Prometheus/Grafana, and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins) to automate and scale services on AWS. As a technical co-founder and later VP/Chief Architect at Abusix, and now leading DevOps at Nitrado while running his own consultancy and CEO role, he blends operator rigor with product-minded architecture. Known for a selective professional network, Simon favors consultancy engagements and pragmatic, security-conscious solutions that stand the test of real traffic. An underrated strength is his track record moving between hands-on engineering and leadership roles, consistently delivering observable systems with centralized logging and metrics at their core.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (37)
kubernetes10
datetime10
security10
kubernetes-security10
rfc10
javascript9
python9
meteor9
webrtc9
slack9
chat9
collaboration9
remote-execution8
zeromq8
scale8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
freach/kubernetes-security-best-practice
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Kubernetes Security - Best Practice Guide
Contributions:35 commits, 5 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 months
kubernetes-securitykubernetessecuritybest-practice
freach/udatetime
Jul 2016 - Aug 2022
Fast RFC3339 compliant Python date-time library
Contributions:5 releases, 73 commits, 7 PRs in 6 years 1 month
datetimepythonrfc
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