Anthony Simon is a software engineer and engineering lead with a decade of experience building scalable search and product systems, currently based in Munich. He has led ranking efforts at Stylight to serve 120+ million users and delivered client-facing mobile, VR and game projects for brands like Deutsche Bank, Porsche, and Ravensburger. A founder and operator, he bootstrapped Panelbear to acquisition and co-founded Cronitor, demonstrating product instincts alongside hands-on engineering. Anthony is an active open-source contributor, notably implementing gettext support in Traduora and creating pure-Go image processing algorithms, reflecting a blend of backend systems, algorithms and media tooling. He pairs academic training in media informatics, CS and mathematics with creative skills—composing original soundtracks and shipping a Top 100 iOS game—bringing a rare mix of technical depth and creative product sensibility.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Technical University Munich
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Medieninformatik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Medieninformatik at Stuttgart Media University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Animación Digital, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Animación Digital at Universidad Veritas
Contributions:11 releases, 272 commits, 72 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the development of image processing algorithms within a Go-based project. Their work includes handling errors, implementing image blur and convolution functions, and adding parallel processing support to improve performance. Furthermore, they refactored existing code for better readability and added features like brightness adjustments and grayscale conversion, demonstrating a focus on algorithm implementation and image manipulation techniques.
Ever® Traduora™ - Open Translation Management Platform - https://traduora.co
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 releases, 341 commits, 111 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Anthony implemented support for the gettext (po) translation format, adding formatters for parsing and exporting gettext files. This included modifications to the API controllers for import and export functionality, as well as the addition of gettext support in the user interface. The user also made changes to the properties formatters by handling the ISO-8859-1 encoding as the default encoding and to the PHP format by escaping special characters.
apitranslationeverinternationalizationtraduora
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.