Simon Barras
DevOps Engineer at 3sigmas SA
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Simon Barras is a bilingual (French/German) DevOps Engineer and EPFL master's student with seven years of hands-on experience designing cloud-native deployments and backend systems in Go and Python. He has practical Kubernetes and CI/CD expertise from professional roles at 3Sigmas and KYMO and has applied this to sensor data pipelines and OAuth-enabled microservices. An active open-source contributor in the Discord ecosystem, he’s implemented core music-player features, refactored API libraries for safer data structures, and improved internationalization and tooling for developer-friendly projects. His academic work blends algorithms and concurrent programming with GPU-accelerated numerical methods—he optimized Runge-Kutta solvers for LHC physics simulations during a Berkeley Lab summer project. Comfortable across full-stack, backend and infrastructure concerns, he brings a strong focus on data structures, performance, and reliable deployment automation.
7 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at EPFLBachelor of Science - BS, Computer science and communication systems, Final: 5.1 Bachelor thesis: 5.3, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer science and communication systems, Final: 5.1 Bachelor thesis: 5.3 at Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Fribourg (HEIA-FR)Computer science license, Computer scientist and systems, CFC: 5,8 Maturité: 5,3, Computer science license, Computer scientist and systems, CFC: 5,8 Maturité: 5,3 at EMF - Fribourg / Freiburg
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Github Skills (39)
application-framework10
deno10
javascript10
discord-js10
app-framework10
bots10
typescript10
queuing10
api10
vue10
discord-bot10
typescript-types10
googlebot10
task-queue10
discord-py10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
Androz2091/scratch-for-discord
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
🐱Create your own Discord Bot easily using Scratch-styled blocks! Made with Vue.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 64 reviews, 266 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the development of the frontend of a Discord bot building tool, using a Vue.js framework. Their contributions included the integration of a script loading plugin for external libraries, and implementing new blocks. They also made changes related to the user interface, adding new buttons in the edit menu. Further contributions involved work on internationalization, localizing the application for multiple languages, and enabling functionality to open and save project files.
discord-jsvue-jsdiscorddiscordjsjavascript
Androz2091/discord-giveaways-bot
Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
🎁Giveways Bot using the discord-giveaways package
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 36 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the development of a Discord giveaway bot. Their work involved implementing core features such as starting, ending, and rerolling giveaways, including support for specifying giveaway names and the ability for the "Giveaways" role to manage giveaways. The user also integrated features like the inclusion of hostedBy options and updated the project to support Discord.js v12, demonstrating a strong focus on the bot's functionality and maintenance. The commits showcase the implementation of core logic using the discord-giveaways package.
discord-jsdiscord-giveawaysdiscorddiscordjsbot
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