Ariel Simulevski is a Staff Software Engineer and cloud-native architect with a decade of experience designing resilient, mission-critical systems across research, finance, government and space exploration. He has built HPC-aware cloud applications for the Vienna Scientific Cluster, led container orchestration and archival architectures at the University of Vienna, and designed triple-redundant, space-ready communication stacks for a Mars rover. Proficient in Go, Java, C#, Kubernetes and distributed messaging, he also contributes to notable open-source Go tooling such as samber/lo, improving generics-based utility functions and robust error-handling APIs. Comfortable bridging research and production, Ariel combines hands-on implementation with requirements-driven architecture and stakeholder-facing communication. Based in Berlin, he favors pragmatic, cost-conscious engineering (including a dynamic "scale-to-zero" container orchestrator) and remains active in community leadership and continuous learning.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Political Science, Bachelor's degree, Political Science at Universität Wien
Computer Science, Computer Science at HTL Spengergasse
💥 A Lodash-style Go library based on Go 1.18+ Generics (map, filter, contains, find...)
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Back-end Developer
Contributions:21 reviews, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ariel primarily contributed to the `samber/lo` Go library, focusing on implementing and documenting utility functions. They added new functions mirroring Lodash's functionality, specifically `Drop`, `DropRight`, `DropWhile`, and `DropRightWhile`. They also added and documented functions related to error handling such as `Try`, `TryCatch`, `TryWithErrorValue` and `TryCatchWithErrorValue` along with function overloads. The changes include adding tests for the new functionalities and fixing the return value order for the error handling functions.
Contributions:1 release, 19 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
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Ariel Simulevski - Staff Software Engineer at Auralis Partners