Simon Fraser
Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Cisco Meraki
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Fraser is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer based in Cambridge with 11 years of focused experience building and operating large-scale systems through software—primarily Python with growing Go expertise. He specializes in automating deployments, instrumenting services for data-driven operations, and turning low-level system metrics into actionable dashboards and tooling. His open-source contributions include a Lustre plugin for the widely used Telegraf agent, reflecting deep familiarity with storage telemetry and /proc parsing. Prior roles at Cisco Meraki, Mozilla, and the Wellcome Sanger Institute combine release engineering, CI/CD automation, and GCLP-compliant HPC operations, showing a blend of regulatory-aware infrastructure and developer productivity work. He also authored the second edition of a Python microservices book, emphasizing async services and operational migration — a signal that he thinks about long-term maintainability as well as immediate reliability.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons), Cybernetics and Computer Science, BSc(Hons), Cybernetics and Computer Science at The University of Reading
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Github Skills (16)
monitoring10
go10
metric10
testing9
python9
golang8
influxdb8
paramiko6
floor6
pandas6
syntax6
curl6
math6
regex6
django6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/telegraf
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 8 PRs, 16 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the development of a Lustre 2 plugin for the Telegraf agent. They implemented the plugin, including the necessary configuration options and logic for gathering metrics from Lustre file system instances. They also added unit tests for the plugin and made updates to the test utility and configuration files. The user's work involves parsing Lustre-specific metrics from /proc files.
agentreportingcollectingagent-servertelegraf
srfraser/adventofcode
Dec 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 6 years 6 months
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