Simon Hyll
Custom Software Engineering Specialist at Cygni, part of Accenture
Linköping, Sweden
Summary
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RockstarSimon Hyll is a Custom Software Engineering Specialist with eight years of experience building secure, scalable, and high-performance systems, currently delivering solutions at Cygni (Accenture). A former CTO for a hedge fund, he blends hands-on full‑stack development with platform engineering, DevOps automation, and a strong focus on reliability and sustainability. He is an active open-source contributor and former Tauri working group member, having fixed framework issues and improved documentation for the popular lightweight desktop app framework. Based in Linköping, Sweden, Simon mentors engineering teams and prioritizes pragmatic, auditable solutions for production environments. Notably, his background spans both customer-facing IT support roles and strategic technical leadership, giving him rare end-to-end operational perspective.
8 years of coding experience
German, French, Swahili, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Italian, English, Swedish
Github Skills (7)
rust10
desktop-application10
documentation9
web-frontend9
webview8
android-webview8
mobile-application7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tauri-apps/tauri
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 1 commit, 13 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Simon's contributions primarily involve modifying the Tauri framework's codebase. They fixed a template issue by removing unnecessary code, corrected grammar and typos in documentation, added copyright text to the installer, and fixed a broken link. They also implemented documentation improvements by adding icons to the rustdoc and addressed a specific issue by modifying the ipc protocol.
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simonhyll/cargo-audit
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 release, 42 commits, 38 pushes in 2 days
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