Simon Gaeremynck
Software Engineer at Cobrowse.io
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Gaeremynck is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building scalable web and cloud-native systems from Cambridge, UK. He has led product and architectural work—most recently as Senior Staff Software Engineer at Anthology and now at Cobrowse.io—scaling services that process millions of items and meet strict security standards. A founder-turned-operator, he built and exited an ed-tech product (Ally) that was later acquired by Blackboard, where he led its global, AWS-based rollout. Simon balances front-end UX improvements with back-end robustness, contributing to notable open-source projects like Etherpad and ElasticMQ (adding FIFO SQS semantics and export/refactor work). He is comfortable across Scala, TypeScript, Node.js and AWS services, and brings a pragmatic focus on delivery, observability, and modernizing legacy stacks. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to translate research and academic platform experience into production-grade learning technologies.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Applied Engineering: Computer Science, Master’s Degree Applied Engineering: Computer Science at Technical University of Ghent (Hogent)Bachelor’s Degree Multimedia & Communication Technologies, Bachelor’s Degree Multimedia & Communication Technologies at Technical University of West Flanders (Howest)
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (31)
unit-testing10
javascript10
messaging10
back-end-development10
amazon-sqs10
ui-design10
scala10
uid10
front-end-development10
html10
nodejs10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
css9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
oaeproject/3akai-ux
Nov 2009 - Apr 2016
Open Academic Environment (OAE) Front-End
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:328 commits, 15 PRs, 32 pushes in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Simon's contributions primarily revolve around front-end development, as evidenced by the changes to HTML files (e.g., `dev/people.html`, `dev/profile_edit.html`) and JavaScript files (e.g., `dev/_javascript/profile_edit.js`, `devwidgets/discussion/javascript/discussion.js`). The user implemented UI components and functionality related to profile editing, and the integration of a new document preview feature. Furthermore, the user modified code to render views and functionality to make UI improvements.
reactjavascriptfrontendfront-endtypescript
softwaremill/elasticmq
Feb 2018 - Aug 2019
In-memory message queue with an Amazon SQS-compatible interface. Runs stand-alone or embedded.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 5 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Simon implemented and tested new features for ElasticMQ, focusing on supporting FIFO (First-In, First-Out) message queues, a core feature of Amazon SQS. Their work included adding validation for message group and deduplication IDs, refactoring the message queue implementation, and expanding the test suite to cover FIFO-specific behavior like message ordering, deduplication, and visibility timeout. Furthermore, the user ensured that FIFO queues were correctly supported when starting from a configuration file and correctly output FIFO related attributes in receive requests.
memorystandawsmessage-queueelasticmq
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