Simon Buerger
Technical Director at Bluegrass
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSimon Buerger is a technical leader with 11 years of hands-on experience delivering resilient, cloud-native applications and front-end solutions, now serving as Technical Director at Bluegrass. He combines deep expertise in JavaScript, React and React Native with practical cloud and DevOps ownership—having led a notable migration from private VMs to Azure App Service that cut costs and improved deployment agility. Simon oversees distributed teams, champions continuous delivery and automation, and still dives into architecture for the most complex client projects. Based in the Western Cape, he balances technical craft with curiosity—maintaining open-source front-end tooling for his firm and tinkering with home automation in his downtime.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BBusSc, Business Science: Finance, BBusSc, Business Science: Finance at University of Cape TownWynberg Boys' High School
Github Skills (153)
xmlhttprequest10
custom-component10
google-places10
css-in-js10
animated10
gesture10
runner10
fetch-api10
javascript10
animation10
react-native-web10
ajax10
bare10
cross-platform10
android10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bluegrassdigital/bluegrass-html-boilerplate
Jan 2017 - Feb 2019
Bluegrass front-end boilerplate - gulp, webpack, babel, blue-widgets, Sass, autoprefixer, ITCSS, BEM, Nunjucks, browsersync
Contributions:3 releases, 30 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 1 month
browsersyncgulpfront-endgulp-boilerplatesass
simonbuerger/react-native-maps
Jul 2018 - Aug 2021
React Native Mapview component for iOS + Android
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
reactreact-nativeios-androidandroidmapview
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