Simon Schmitt
Principal Software Engineer at Safety io
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Schmitt is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with 15 years of experience building distributed, dependable systems and serverless, event-driven architectures. He holds a Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science and combines research-honed rigor from academia with hands-on AWS expertise to design highly scalable, failure-tolerant microservices and IoT data platforms. At Safety io he leads modular cloud component design and end-to-end CI/CD practices, emphasizing automated testing, cost-quality tradeoffs, and contract-first APIs. Former research on indoor localization and robot motion planning informs his systematic approach to fault tolerance and system observability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who balances deep technical detail with mentoring and operational excellence.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. Informatik, Dr. rer. nat. Informatik at Freie Universität Berlin
German, English
Github Skills (9)
expect8
testing5
npm5
matcher5
javascript4
e2e3
aws3
cicd2
devops2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rimesime/jest-matcher-http
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Extension for Jest providing http-related matchers.
Contributions:6 reviews, 25 commits, 75 PRs in 1 month
matcherintegrationjesttestingjavascript
grimrpr/fu_tools
Jun 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:105 commits in 5 months
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