Simon Fenton
Engineering Manager at Zendesk
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Fenton is an experienced engineering manager and technologist with 13 years building cloud-native web systems across HCM, e-commerce, charity, entertainment and energy sectors. He blends hands-on polyglot engineering (Node.js, Haskell, Python, C#/F#, Java) with architecture and delivery leadership, having pioneered microservices, devops practices and contract-driven CI/CD at scale. At Zendesk he grew and launched the Answer Bot Flow Builder from initial concept to a product serving all customers, and earlier led SSO and analytics initiatives at SEEK that materially reduced legacy technical debt. Comfortable across serverless, container and colo environments, he emphasizes low-overhead verification (blue/green, canary, contract testing) and observability to speed safe releases. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns stakeholder complexity into deployable, resilient systems and who quietly champions developer experience and mentorship.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of MelbourneTAFE Certificate IV, Language (Japanese), TAFE Certificate IV, Language (Japanese) at RMIT University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
804reputation
73kreached
4answers
10questions
signalr
top-5%
Github Skills (98)
pact10
emacs9
consumer-driven-contracts9
azure-functions9
spacemacs9
vim9
signalr9
aws9
pact-js9
aws-lambda9
serverless-framework9
serverless-applications8
hackage8
emacs-lsp8
melpa8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
screamish/adventofhaskellcode
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:39 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
screamish/.dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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