Simon Croome
Principal Software Engineer, Azure Storage at Microsoft
Tonbridge and Malling, England, United Kingdom
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RockstarSimon Croome is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with 13+ years building large-scale infrastructure, cloud-native storage and distributed systems. As a founder and VP Engineering of StorageOS/Ondat (acquired by Akamai) he led development of software-defined storage for Kubernetes and now heads Azure Container Storage efforts. Hands-on and delivery-focused, he combines deep Unix/Linux and DevOps roots with modern Golang, Kubernetes and container expertise to ship dependable systems on time and on budget. A prolific open-source contributor and Kubernetes collaborator, he’s an experienced speaker and industry advisor, having served on Puppet Labs’ Customer Advisory Board. Past roles span high-stakes environments from finance to national policing, where he implemented enterprise Puppet, OpenStack and large datacentre migrations. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture and a knack for turning complex distributed problems into operational products.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (176)
swagger10
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operator10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
croomes/lab
Oct 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:138 PRs, 175 pushes, 120 branches in 3 years 1 month
storageos/images
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:21 PRs, 42 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 8 months
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