Simon Erkelens
Senior Software Engineer at MetService
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolSimon Erkelens is a Senior Software Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand, with 13 years of hands-on experience across open source, backend systems, and security. He combines deep expertise in Python, PHP, Rust and Linux with practical experience in Go and a history of improving prominent projects like the SilverStripe framework (backend enhancements and performance-focused HTML/JS changes). A longtime contributor and owner of Firesphere.dev, Simon has held technical leadership and engineering roles from CTO to security engineer, delivering pragmatic, performance-minded solutions in both product and consultancy contexts. Known for a penchant for clean code and boundary-pushing humour (“at the edge of sanity”), he pairs entrepreneurial grit with steady delivery on complex web and infrastructure challenges.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BsC, BsC at Saxion Hogeschool Enschede
English, Dutch, frysian, French, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian
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Github Skills (10)
php10
silverstripe10
backend10
back-end-development10
gridview6
content-management-system6
html6
caching6
modeladmin6
forms6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
silverstripe/silverstripe-framework
Sep 2012 - Feb 2018
Silverstripe Framework, the MVC framework that powers Silverstripe CMS
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 25 PRs, 375 comments in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on improving the Silverstripe framework's backend functionality. Their contributions include adding features like allowing an array of fields to be removed by name in the FieldList class and implementing the option to force Javascript to the end of the HTML body for faster page loading. Additionally, they worked on other backend improvements such as pagination.
cmsphppowersframeworksilverstripe
Firesphere/silverstripe-debugbar
Jul 2017 - Apr 2024
SilverStripe DebugBar module
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
actgardendebugbaromssilverstripe
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