Simon Wiencki
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Red Hat
Canada
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Top SchoolSimon Wiencki is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Canada with over a decade of networking and infrastructure experience and five years focused on reliability engineering. He transitioned from hands-on network administration and senior network engineering roles at Kelowna Flightcraft and The Walt Disney Company into SRE work at Red Hat, where he blends deep network knowledge with cloud-native operations. His open-source contributions to Azure/ARO-RP show practical backend and DevOps chops—adding retry logic, race-condition fixes, cloud-aware OAuth configuration, and OpenVPN integrations to improve robustness of cluster deletion and management workflows. Comfortable across infrastructure, automation, and security concerns, he is skilled at turning operational pain points into durable platform improvements. Colleagues would describe him as methodical, pragmatic, and quietly impactful, often addressing edge-case failures before they become incidents.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Network Engineering Technology, Network Engineering Technology at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology / SAIT
Github Skills (9)
azure10
go10
microsoft-azure10
cloud-computing10
devops10
openvpn7
oauth7
kubernetes6
kubernetes-pods6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/ARO-RP
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 7 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily worked on backend and infrastructure-related tasks within the Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP repository. Their contributions include adding retry logic and logging improvements to the cluster deletion process, addressing potential race conditions and improving the robustness of the deletion functionality. Additionally, the user implemented cloud-aware configurations for OAuth endpoints and integrated OpenVPN for civil management virtual machines in support of Simply Secure.
red-hatopenshifthatkubernetesazure
swiencki/azure-docs
May 2021 - Nov 2023
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:1 review, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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