Simon Rüegg
Software Engineer at Apple
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Rüegg is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native systems and reliability tooling, currently focused on SRE and software engineering at Apple in London. He combines a strong academic foundation from ZHAW with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, OpenShift, CI/CD and backend development in Go, Python and Java. At VSHN he led technical projects, ran on-call rotations and acted as squad master, blending engineering delivery with customer-facing requirements and sales support. Simon is an active open-source contributor to Crossplane, having implemented core configuration and CRD-related features that improve Kubernetes control-plane behavior. He brings practical experience operating large-scale container platforms and a knack for translating platform-level complexity into reliable, automatable solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who balances deep systems knowledge with effective team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Grand Valley State UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science at ZHAW School of Engineering
English, German, French
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Github Skills (14)
control-systems10
crt10
infrastructure-as-code10
controls10
kubernetes10
go10
api10
cloud-native10
controller10
cloud-manager10
apidoc10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml9
container9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
crossplane/crossplane
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
The Cloud Native Control Plane
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 25 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed to the core functionality of Crossplane by implementing features related to configuration management and Kubernetes resource definitions. They added functionality for overriding image names in ControllerConfig and included printer columns for improved resource listing. Furthermore, they modified code to require the `spec` field in XR's, along with incorporating the schema from XRDs. These contributions involved interacting with API definitions, CRD generation, and control plane logic related to the Kubernetes ecosystem.
containerscloud-computingserverlesscloudmulticloud
srueg/upptime
Jun 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:7748 pushes, 2 branches, 1635 comments in 2 years 9 months
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