Simon Emms
Staff Solutions Architect at Temporal Technologies
Telford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Emms is a Staff Solutions Architect with 12 years of hands-on experience designing resilient, secure platform and developer tooling for hybrid and cloud-native environments. He has led platform efforts at companies like Gitpod, Bohemia Interactive Simulations and Temporal Technologies, shipping self-hosted installers, internal developer platforms, and global replication strategies for terabytes of data. A pragmatic engineer and mentor, he repeatedly focuses on developer experience, reliability and cost control—often recruiting and coaching teams to adopt GitOps, CI/CD and modern tooling. As co-founder of BrowserSpy and an active contributor to the Gitpod repo, he pairs product-minded architecture with low-level operational fixes (e.g., workspace force-stop and runc logging). Based in Telford, he balances deep backend and DevOps expertise with a tinkerer’s curiosity—he’s as comfortable building playback microservices as he is reverse-engineering proprietary databases. Outside work he’s a beekeeper and professional tea-drinker, a small hint at the patient, detail-oriented approach he brings to complex systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree International Politics and Strategic Studies, Bachelor's degree International Politics and Strategic Studies at Aberystwyth University
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
back-end-development10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
debug9
debugging9
dockers9
bash9
docker9
database-management9
cicd8
throw6
ant6
mongodb6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
gitpod-io/gitpod
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
The developer platform for on-demand cloud development environments to create software faster and more securely.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:20 releases, 489 reviews, 372 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon implemented force-stop functionality for workspaces stuck in bad states, involving code changes to the meta-instance controller and modifications to the database to include stopping phases. They also addressed an issue in the ws-daemon, collecting logs from runc commands and ensuring proper nsinsider logging. Additionally, the user refactored the code for the license and added customizations for the HTTP proxy and a code signing functionality.
automatestheiadev-environmentdisposabledevcontainer
browserspy/docs-browserspy-io
Jul 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:42 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 8 months
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