Simon Delicata
Développeur at Traefik Labs
Neyron, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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RockstarSimon Delicata is a seasoned developer with a decade of experience building and architecting web and backend systems, currently contributing to Traefik Labs on the cloud-native proxy Traefik. He progressed from co-founding and technical leadership roles in small agencies to driving platform and web strategy as a technical lead and architect in the insurance sector. At Traefik he has focused on observability and reliability improvements—enhancing Datadog integration, refining request handling, and adding TCP transport support—showing a pragmatic focus on production robustness. Based in Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost, France, he blends hands-on backend engineering with architecture-level thinking, comfortable shifting between legacy modernization and cloud-native practices. Notably, his contributions emphasize removing side effects in tests and deterministic request capture, reflecting attention to testability and maintainability often overlooked in infrastructure projects.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
go10
reverse-proxy10
tracer10
trace10
docker8
testing8
dockers8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
load-balancer7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
traefik/traefik
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
The Cloud Native Application Proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the Traefik project by modifying and enhancing existing functionalities. They focused on improving the Datadog integration by adding support for GlobalTags and removing deprecated options, indicating a focus on observability and tracing. Additional contributions included removing side effects in tests, creating a new capture instance for each request, and disabling content-type auto-detection by default, suggesting a focus on reliability, and optimization of request handling within the proxy. Further contributions related to TCP server transport support were also made.
zookeeperproxyload-balancingreverse-proxymesos
sdelicata/traefik
May 2022 - Jan 2023
The Cloud Native Application Proxy
Contributions:4 PRs, 63 pushes, 16 branches in 8 months
golangproxydockerkubernetesproxy-application
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