Simon Schrottner
OpenFeature maintainer & CNCF Ambassador. I help engineering teams ship faster with less risk.
I work with teams to make feature flagging boring and reliable — built on open standards, instrumented for observability, and grounded in the practices that actually move release confidence. Polyglot by habit (Java, Go, Python, JavaScript), enabler by trade.
Based in Pernegg an der Mur, Austria. Available for consulting across the DACH region and remote.
What I help with
- Feature flagging workshops — get teams from ad-hoc toggles to a flagging strategy they can trust in production.
- Developer experience advisory — fractional input on tooling, testing, and the unglamorous plumbing that decides whether your release cycle is a strength or a tax.
- Implementation consulting — hands-on rollout of OpenFeature, observability integration, and the glue work that ties them together.
- Talks & keynotes — conference sessions, keynotes, and in-house talks, delivered from inside the projects rather than from the outside looking in.
Speaking
I’m available to hire as a speaker — conferences, meetups, and internal engineering events, in English or German.
Next up: ContainerDays Hamburg (Sep 2–4), KCD Sofia (Sep 29), and KubeCon NA in Salt Lake City (Nov 9–12). Previously KubeCon EU, Devoxx, DevoxxUK, JavaCro, JCON, Cloudland, JNation, and meetups across Europe.
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Left of the Loop
The question I’m chasing right now: AI is stripping out the incidental friction that used to produce shared understanding as a byproduct of building software. That makes shared understanding the scarce resource — and pushes engineering work left, toward defining what a system should do before anything gets built.
Left of the Loop is where I’m working that out in public. It’s a series in progress, and it’s the direction I want to take my own practice, my talks, and the teams I work with.
Writing
Occasional notes on feature flagging, observability, and where open standards are heading.
Work with me
Working on feature flagging, developer experience, or open-standards adoption and want a second pair of hands or eyes? Send me a short note about what you’re trying to ship — I’ll come back honestly about whether I can help.