Simon Drake
Principal Software Engineer at Splunk
Biggleswade, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Drake is a Principal Software Engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems and migrating monoliths to microservices. Currently at Splunk, he specializes in Go, Node.js, Kubernetes, Docker and multi-cloud deployments (AWS/GCP), and has a track record of introducing TDD, CI/CD and container practices that improve reliability and developer velocity. He’s comfortable across the full stack—from React frontends to SQL and NoSQL datastores—and has practical experience in observability (ELK) and crypto-related projects. A self-taught engineer who rose from service management into senior engineering roles, he combines strong customer-facing communication with deep implementation skills. Notably, he often learns new platforms on the job and codified those learnings into reusable utilities and boilerplates to accelerate team adoption.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE's and A Levels, GCSE's and A Levels at Stratton Upper School
Github Skills (89)
mremoteng9
remote-access9
autocomplete9
indices9
migration9
migration-tool9
modeling9
odm9
smart-table9
rails9
nodejs9
elasticsearch-client9
mongodb9
autosuggest9
disqus8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OmisNomis/configurationFiles
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
OmisNomis/dgraph
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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