Simon Headley
Back End Engineer at M-KOPA
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Top SchoolSimon Headley is a Back End Engineer with nine years of experience building server-side systems, currently focused on scalable .NET services and cloud-native patterns at M-KOPA. He progressed through multiple senior roles at Derivco, developing deep expertise in .NET, DevOps, Dapr, and container orchestration. Simon combines a strong academic foundation (BSc Computer Science, UKZN) with hands-on experience in CI/CD, Octopus/PowerShell workflows, and distributed microservice architectures. He enjoys rapid learning and applying new technologies to solve real-world problems, often advocating pragmatic cloud and DevOps practices. Based in Durban, he blends production-grade engineering discipline with an appetite for experimentation—Docker and Kubernetes are among his visible tooling loves. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who prefers thinking in architecture and systems rather than individual features.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of KwaZulu-NatalMatric Bachelor's Pass. 4 A's, School Stuff, Matric Bachelor's Pass. 4 A's, School Stuff at Kloof High School
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (93)
cosmosdb10
serverless10
microservices10
cloud-native10
portable10
sidecar10
sdk10
golang10
kubernetes10
distributed-systems10
pubsub10
csharp10
event-driven10
dapr10
state-management10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
KrylixZA/Azure-Pipelines-Docker-Agents
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
A collection of Dockerfiles that produce a variety of implementations of the Azure Pipelines Agent
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 8 PRs in 11 months
azure-pipelines-agentimplementationsazure-pipelinesagentdocker
KrylixZA/FinancialPeace-Web-Api
Dec 2020 - Jun 2022
The Financial Peace Web API exposes restful functions to serve the functions necessary for managing your way to financial peace!
Contributions:9 PRs, 65 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 6 months
financialapipeacerestfulserve
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