Simon Holloway
Founding Engineer at Capably
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarSimon Holloway is a founding engineer with 13 years of software experience, currently focused on microservice architecture, cloud infrastructure, and accelerating the release cycle through containers, pipelines and Kubernetes. He progressed from full-stack web development into platform and technical leadership roles at SuperAwesome and built resilient microservice platforms and Kubernetes environments at GiveSmart. Simon is hands-on with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and observability, and has contributed to the Deno standard library—improving testing primitives and adding structured JSON logging—showing a taste for robust developer tooling. Based in England, he combines practical engineering with product sensibilities and a track record of shipping multi-service systems that balance developer ergonomics and production reliability.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
deno10
logging10
typescript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
testing10
javascript9
unit-testing9
automations8
automation8
json8
automation-testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
denoland/std
Dec 2023 - Mar 2024
The Deno Standard Library
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:56 reviews, 30 PRs, 89 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the Deno standard library, focusing on testing and logging improvements. They implemented new features for the `expect` testing module, enabling message checks in `toThrow` assertions and adding functionality to the `FakeTime()` feature. Furthermore, the user refactored and updated the `std/log` module, enhancing support for structured JSON logging and adapting it to work without deprecated features. The user also prepared various modules for `noUncheckedIndexedAccess`.
deno-deploydeno-modulejavascriptstandard-librarydeno
syhol/js-training
Jan 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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