Siggi Simonarson
Founder at BuildBuddy
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolSiggi Simonarson is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-facing infrastructure, currently leading BuildBuddy (YC W20) out of Palo Alto. A former Google senior engineer and Area 120 co-founder, he has deep experience shipping scalable developer tooling and productizing internal experiments. He blends startup grit with Google-scale engineering practices, focusing on performance and developer productivity. Educated at Virginia Tech and shaped by early internships at Google, his background suggests a knack for turning developer pain points into commercially viable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
W2020, W2020 at Y CombinatorBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Virginia TechThomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
English, Icelandic
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Github Skills (85)
server-core10
messaging10
message-queue10
extensible10
remote-execution10
streaming10
stomp10
charts10
rabbitmq10
starlark10
helm10
golang10
artemis10
reasoning10
scalable10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
buildbuddy-io/bazel
Jun 2020 - Mar 2025
a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system
Contributions:171 releases, 2 pushes, 193 tags in 4 years 10 months
scalablebazelmulti-languagestarlarkbuild-system
buildbuddy-io/buildbuddy-helm
Aug 2020 - Feb 2023
Official BuildBuddy Helm charts
Contributions:909 releases, 54 reviews, 472 commits in 2 years 5 months
helm-chartschartskuberneteshelm
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