Simon Hobbs
CTO at Free Sauce
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Hobbs is a seasoned CTO and Drupal/CMS architect with 15 years of experience designing and delivering digital platforms across government, enterprise and agency settings. Based in Melbourne, he blends hands-on engineering—contributing backend improvements to composer/satis for better dependency control—with leadership roles that range from interim IT management to heading digital practices. He has led transformation and delivery at organizations including The Diggers Club, Icon Agency and multiple Australian government departments, often acting as consultant, trainer and practice builder. Simon runs his own consultancy Free Sauce, pairing technical strategy with culture and process coaching for teams. Known for pragmatic solutions in govCMS and Drupal ecosystems, he brings a track record of shipping reliable builds, automations and test-backed improvements. Outside of work he curates practical tooling and teams that favour sustainability and clarity over technology for its own sake.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems Computer Science, Information Systems Computer Science at La Trobe University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
php10
package-management10
composer10
testing9
configuration-management8
dependency-injection7
google-sheets6
algorithm6
swagger-ui6
google-apps-script6
swagger6
optimization6
multidimensional-arrays6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
composer/satis
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
Simple static Composer repository generator - For a full private Composer repo use Private Packagist
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 11 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the package selection and build processes within the `composer/satis` repository. They focused on refining dependency management by implementing features like "only best candidates" and a blacklist option to filter packages. Furthermore, the user updated the build process with additional features and added relevant tests for the new blacklist option. These changes aimed to improve the control and flexibility in building a static Composer repository.
composer-repositorystatic-packagistphppackagistcomposer
simesy/drupalcaas-deprecated
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
A generic content api project used by Lil Engine, with an opinionated but flexible out-of-the-box content model.
Contributions:1 release, 28 reviews, 196 commits in 1 year 10 months
apiboxout-of-the-boxgenericapi-project
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