Simon Dassow
Software Consultant at Consult With Simon
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSimon Dassow is a pragmatic software consultant and CTO with over two decades of hands-on software and systems experience, currently running Consult With Simon from Eindhoven and leading technical strategy at PuzzWorks. He spent 13 years at Booking.com as a senior engineer and has a deep background in backend systems, cross-platform app development and operations from roles at RealNetworks and other firms. Simon contributes to noteworthy open-source work such as improving mobile lifecycle support for the Fyne Go GUI toolkit, showing a practical focus on cross-platform mobile compatibility and OpenBSD build support. He combines infrastructure savvy—migration, CI/CD and database synchronization—with product-oriented development like DoneThat, a personal information management app inspired by GTD. Outside of code he’s a certified calisthenics trainer, reflecting an unusual blend of disciplined coaching and long-term software craftsmanship.
5 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Rudolf-Steiner-Schule Loheland
Github Skills (10)
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android-developer10
mobile10
ios10
go10
cross-platform10
android10
openbsd10
windows-gui9
toolkits9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fyne-io/fyne
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 28 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on enhancing the cross-platform capabilities of the Fyne GUI toolkit, specifically targeting mobile platforms. Their work involved adding and modifying code to support lifecycle event queues within the mobile driver, ensuring proper app behavior on mobile platforms like Android and iOS. They also addressed build issues and made formatting adjustments to ensure the project's compatibility across different operating systems, including OpenBSD. Further improvements included modifying the build configuration to correctly support OpenBSD.
golanglinuxguigotoolkit
sdassow/awesome-veganism
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
curated list of awesome resources, pointers, and tips related to veganism
Contributions:88 commits, 21 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 year 6 months
veganplant-basedveganismpointers
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