Simon Hartcher
Owner at Simon Hartcher Services Pty Ltd
Wollongong City Council, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Hartcher is a seasoned software leader and founder with over 18 years of experience shipping production software and more than a decade in senior technical roles. Currently serving as CTO of Bonjoro while running his own companies, he blends hands-on engineering, DevOps and data science to drive product delivery and operational reliability. He has a track record of building teams and systems across cloud, full‑stack and automation tooling, and has contributed pragmatic improvements to the popular Scoop Windows package manager—adding commands, CI integration and user-friendly PowerShell aliases. Comfortable moving between code, infrastructure and business strategy, Simon has repeatedly scaled small teams into effective engineering organizations. Based in Wollongong, Australia, he pairs startup grit with formal Computer Science training from the University of Newcastle. A practical problem-solver, he often surfaces small automation wins that produce outsized operational impact.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
School Certificate, School Certificate at San ClementeBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of NewcastleHSC, HSC at St Francis Xavier's College
English
Stackoverflow
3,500reputation
297kreached
28answers
14questions
macos
top-5%
Github Skills (24)
git10
windows10
command-line-interface10
automation10
installer10
sqoop10
command-line10
powershell10
automations10
installers10
cli10
scripting9
macos9
pester8
json8
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
scoopinstaller/scoop
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:8 branches in 1 day
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the core functionality of Scoop, a command-line installer for Windows. They added and refactored functions for PowerShell command aliases to improve user experience. The user also implemented the `scoop-create` command for manifest creation and integrated improvements to the update process, including git-based updating of scoop itself and its buckets and added the `--no-cache` flag. The user also implemented new features, like custom command support and the `scoop-home` command, and improved install.
deevus/scoop-extras
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
"Extras" bucket for Scoop
Contributions:9 pushes, 11 branches in 10 years 4 months
extrasscoop
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