Simon Stücher
Engineering Manager at Thomann.io
Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarSimon Stücher is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience modernizing high-traffic, cloud-native systems and enabling teams to ship rapidly. He’s currently a hands-on leader at Thomann.io driving DX and legacy-to-cloud transformations after leading backend architecture and scalable platform engineering at Digistore24. His background spans performance optimization, autoscaling, CI/CD refinement, observability, and on-call operations, with deep expertise in PHP-based services and API design. Simon contributes to open-source tooling—improving PhpStorm PHP stubs for the Elastic APM extension—helping developers get better code completion and debugging for observability integrations. Known for combining pragmatic engineering with architectural vision, he’s adept at turning legacy constraints into reliable, high-velocity delivery systems. Based in Siegen, Germany, he brings both hands-on coding and team leadership to complex production challenges.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
php10
webextension10
code-documentation9
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch9
api8
type-checking8
typehinting8
apidoc8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/phpstorm-stubs
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
PHP runtime & extensions header files for PhpStorm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to improving the PHP stubs for the Elastic APM extension within the PhpStorm project. Their work involved fixing return types, improving descriptions, and addressing syntax errors to ensure code correctness. The user also added new stubs for the elastic_apm extension itself, expanding the available functionality within the PhpStorm stubs. These changes likely improve the code completion and debugging capabilities of PhpStorm for developers using the elastic_apm extension.
headerphpruntimeextensionscomposer
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