Juan Simões
Senior Software Engineer at Tlon
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Simões is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of cross-sector experience building cloud-native platforms, currently working on Urbit hosting and Kubernetes lifecycle automation at Tlon. He brings deep functional-programming expertise from his time as a Haskell and Nix consultant at Tweag, where he led projects, contributed to reproducible tooling like tweag/jupyenv and advised colleagues as a mentor. With a PhD in Complex Systems from Université Paris-Saclay, he combines quantitative research skills with practical software delivery across academia, banking and logistics. He also teaches informatics and bioinformatics, having deployed teaching software for medical curricula, which reflects an unusual blend of production engineering and pedagogy. Based in Dubai, he is an editor and technical writer with a track record of translating complex systems thinking into maintainable code and reproducible development environments.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Complex Systems Science, Master's degree, Complex Systems Science at École PolytechniqueDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Complex Systems Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Complex Systems Science at Université Paris-SaclayUniversity of São Paulo
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian
Github Skills (7)
nix10
jupyter10
dockers9
python9
docker9
cicd8
haskell7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tweag/jupyenv
Dec 2018 - Apr 2022
Declarative and reproducible Jupyter environments - powered by Nix
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 202 commits, 102 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Juan primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the `tweag/jupyenv` project, which involves creating reproducible Jupyter environments with Nix. Their contributions include pinning Nixpkgs and yarn2nix versions, and updating yarn2nix versions, showcasing a good understanding of package management and build systems. They added Python and Haskell kernels, demonstrating expertise in extending the project's functionality. Furthermore, they implemented Docker image building, demonstrating DevOps skills.
nixosdeclarativejupyterlabreproduciblereproducibility
guaraqe/guaraqe.github.io
Apr 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:170 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
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