Simon Frey

Simon Frey

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ABOUT ME
Seniore Infrastructure Developer with 5+ years of experience in Golang
Seniore Infrastructure Developer with 5+ years of experience in Golang

Founder & CTO as a Service with expertise in aligning products with market demands, developing tech KPIs, and conducting technical due diligence. Skilled in team building, Agile methodologies, and technology consulting. Led teams at JustWatch.com, managing core infrastructure, negotiating contracts, and collaborating with senior leadership. Proficient in Kubernetes, Terraform, and Golang, with a track record of driving performance enhancements. Let's innovate together for success.

Berlin (+02:00)
Joined March 2024
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SOCIAL PRESENCE
GitHub
unshort.link
Prevent short link services from tracking you by unshortening the urls for your
Go
171
25
s4
Simple Shamir's Secret Sharing (s4) - A go package giving a easy to use interface for the shamir's secret sharing algorithm
Go
135
18
Stack Overflow
2709 Reputation
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12
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EMPLOYMENTS
Head of Infrastructure
JustWatch
2022-08-01-2023-09-01

Team Leadership

Led two specialized teams (4 remote SREs and 3 on-site IT experts) to ensure the operational stability of

Team Leadership

Led two specialized teams (4 remote SREs and 3 on-site IT experts) to ensure the operational stability of JustWatch.com for its 50 million active users.

Core Infrastructure Management

Responsible for the design, ongoing maintenance, and optimization of JustWatch's core infrastructure, ensuring high performance and reliability.

Strategic Provider Negotiations

Played a pivotal role in evaluating external providers and successfully negotiated significant contracts, including a multi-million dollar deal with Google Cloud.

Collaboration with Senior Leadership

Actively collaborated with the CTO and VP of Engineering to develop and implement strategic plans for the engineering organization as well as support with compliance management

Technical Oversight and Expertise

Oversaw and guided complex technical tasks involving key technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, and Golang. Incident Management and Reporting: Managed critical incident responses and provided regular, detailed reports on infrastructure performance to company leadership.

Organizational Communication

Prepared and delivered impactful quarterly presentations to the entire company, demonstrating strong communication skills and organizational awareness.

Google Cloud Platform
Terraform
Go
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Google Cloud Platform
Terraform
Go
Kubeflow
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Site Reliability Engineer
JustWatch
2020-04-01-2022-08-01

Kubernetes and Scylla Cluster Management

Owning deployment, monitoring, and operation of k8s and Scylla clusters.

Data ...

Kubernetes and Scylla Cluster Management

Owning deployment, monitoring, and operation of k8s and Scylla clusters.

Data Warehouse Migration: AWS to Google Cloud

Supporting the migration of the data warehouse from AWS over to Google Cloud.

Incident Response Optimization and Continuous Learning

Structuring incident response and aftercare for continuous learning.

20% Performance Enhancement for justwatch.com

Decreased the initial loading time of justwatch.com by building a multi-level caching strategy to ensure the platform complies with Google Core Web Vitals.

Google Cloud Platform
JavaScript
Kubernetes
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Google Cloud Platform
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Terraform
Go
AWS
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PROJECTS
10levelupView Project
2024
Our AI identifies the highlights of your YouTube videos and creates clips for your social media automatically. Save dozens of hours per m...
Our AI identifies the highlights of your YouTube videos and creates clips for your social media automatically. Save dozens of hours per month creating content!
OpenCV
Machine learning
Video Processing
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OpenCV
Machine learning
Video Processing
Next.js
Go
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