Simon Schrottner
Senior Software Engineer & Team Captain @Dynatrace
Pernegg an der Mur, Austria
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Simon Schrottner is an open source enthusiast and software engineer currently working at Dynatrace.
He’s deeply involved with OpenFeature, contributing to its growth in the open source community while also driving its internal adoption at Dynatrace.
Though Simon’s roots lie in the Java ecosystem, his current work spans multiple languages – including Golang, Java, JavaScript, and more recently, Python – to support OpenFeature across a broad tech stack.
Developer experience is a major motivator for him: he’s passionate about empowering others to thrive and succeed. His open source journey began with contributions to developer tooling like JUnit, JUnit Pioneer, and Sonar, always with the goal of making everyday work a little easier for fellow developers.
Outside of coding, Simon is an avid adventurer – often found climbing or hiking. He’s also a strong supporter of community-driven hospitality platforms like Couchsurfing and Warmshowers.
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OpenFeature’s Positive Impact on Confidence at Dynatrace
At Dynatrace, feature flags have been integral to our workflows for years. However, our homegrown solution has increasingly become a fragmented collection of flags rather than a comprehensive management tool. This has led to challenges such as unclear use cases, legacy flags with unknown or unintended uses, and complexity compounded by team transitions and shifting assignments.
To address these issues, we embraced OpenFeature to standardize and enhance feature flag observability—not just for our benefit but for the broader developer community. By integrating OpenFeature with OpenTelemetry, our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) now have actionable insights, enabling them to confidently assess potential impacts and side effects across our systems.
Join us as we share our journey with OpenFeature at Dynatrace and how it’s transforming the way we manage feature flags.
Fun with Flags: Bringing the Fun Back into Feature Flagging with OpenFeature
Feature flags have revolutionized the software delivery lifecycle, enabling teams to decouple releases from deployments and create a more agile development process. They're often hailed as one of the key practices in modern software development—at least in theory.
However, as systems grow in complexity, so do the challenges associated with feature flagging. From supporting multiple languages and managing targeted evaluations to avoiding vendor lock-in and safely decommissioning obsolete code, what initially seems like a straightforward problem can quickly become daunting.
The OpenFeature community is tackling these challenges head-on by providing vendor-agnostic SDKs and a suite of powerful tools designed to simplify the feature flagging experience. Join me as we explore the common pitfalls of feature flagging and discover how OpenFeature can help bring the fun back into this critical aspect of software development.
Target audience: Everyone within the SDLC can profit from feature flags, basic overview, entry into feature flagging
JavaCro'25 Sessionize Event Upcoming
Cloudland 2025 Upcoming
Fun with Flags
MakeIT 2025 / JCON OpenBlend Slovenia 2025 Sessionize Event
CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025 Sessionize Event
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