Simon Meggle lives near Augsburg (DE). Since his first contact with the tool "Nagios" in early 2000, the topic "monitoring" has accompanied him his whole professional life: as an IT administrator in various industries, then as a consultant from 2011. With the foundation of his company ELABIT GmbH in 2018, he has finally specialized on the monitoring tool "Checkmk".
During the 2020 pandemic, he developed the Checkmk extension "Robotmk" to integrate Robot Framework, which gained a lot of attention in the monitoring community. 
Since 2022, he works among others for Checkmk as "Principal Product Manager" in the Synthetic Monitoring area to establish Synthetic Monitoring in the monitoring world.