Simon Westphahl
Tech Lead - CodeCraft CI Platform
Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolSimon Westphahl is a seasoned tech lead with 15 years of hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD platforms, currently leading the CodeCraft CI Platform at BMW Group. He blends deep Python and DevOps expertise with cloud and orchestration technologies (AWS, OpenStack, Kubernetes, OpenShift) and has driven Zuul/Nodepool-based CI infrastructure at scale. Simon’s background ranges from embedded Linux test frameworks and IVI middleware to modern platform engineering, giving him rare end-to-end visibility from device-level tests to enterprise CI pipelines. An active open-source contributor, he has improved popular Python tooling like github3.py and modernized Django calendaring code, reflecting a focus on API ergonomics, testability and Python 3 compatibility. Based in Ulm, Germany, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a track record of automating complex test farms and CI workflows for automotive-grade software.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Fachinformatiker - Systemintegration, Fachinformatiker - Systemintegration at Staatl. Berufsschule I KemptenBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied SciencesFachhochschulreife, Fachhochschulreife at Berufsoberschule Memmingen
English, German
Github Skills (8)
rest-api10
github-api10
rest10
python10
django10
icalendar10
github9
testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
llazzaro/django-scheduler
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
A calendaring app for Django.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 8 PRs, 3 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on improving the Django-based calendaring app. Their contributions include migrating the project to use the `icalendar` library, replacing the deprecated `assertEquals` test calls, fixing code style issues, and making the project Python 3 compatible. Additionally, they implemented changes related to the settings and template tags.
pythoncalendardjangocalendaringevent-calendar
sigmavirus24/github3.py
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Hi, I'm a library for interacting with GItHub's REST API in a convenient and ergonomic way. I work on Python 3.6+.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 28 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the `github3.py` library, focusing on enhancements to the checks API and general code improvements. They added new features for interacting with check runs and suites, including methods for creating and updating them. Additionally, the user addressed code quality and maintainability by reformatting code with Black, fixing typos, and improving the overall API implementation.
apipythonpython-3-6python38rest-client
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