Matt Simons
Senior Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatt Simons is a Senior Platform Engineer with nine years’ experience building and operating cloud-native platforms across startups and large enterprises, currently managing Kubernetes and OpenShift payment platforms at Worldpay/FIS. He combines strong systems programming in Go, Java, Python and Bash with hands-on DevOps expertise in Spinnaker, Jenkins and CI/CD, and has a track record of accelerating delivery through Kubernetes Operators and self-service platform APIs. As the first DevOps hire at pi-top he designed automated build and release pipelines that transformed manual OS and package workflows into test-driven, on-demand cloud builds. Comfortable on-call and delivery-focused from his IBM Cloud and Tivoli background, he blends reliability-first engineering with developer experience improvements. Based in London with a First Class degree in Mathematics with Computing, he favors pragmatic automation that turns operational toil into reproducible developer productivity.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics with Computing with Professional Placement, First Class Honours, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics with Computing with Professional Placement, First Class Honours at Aston University
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Github Skills (75)
github10
data-transformation10
etl10
fluent-bit10
stream-processing10
fluentd10
cloud-native10
rust-lang10
monitoring10
provisioning10
github-api10
golang10
high-performance10
observability10
observability-data10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
testernetes/bdk
Jan 2023 - May 2024
Behaviour Driven Kubernetes
Contributions:3 releases, 7 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 4 months
kubernetesbehaviour
matt-simons/syncset-gen
May 2019 - Jul 2020
A SyncSet/SelectorSyncSet generator
Contributions:9 releases, 4 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
generatortypescript
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