Simon Jagoe
Principal DevOps Engineer at Smartly.io
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolSimon Jagoe is a Principal DevOps Engineer based in Helsinki with 18 years of experience building and operating distributed systems, from Python-driven electron microscopy clients to cloud-native Kubernetes platforms. He combines deep practical skills in Python, JavaScript and C with strong Linux, networking and infrastructure expertise, and has led migrations from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes and optimized ML workloads for production. As founder of small consultancies and now at Smartly.io, he bridges hands-on development, architecture reviews and operational delivery across GCP, PostgreSQL and messaging systems like RabbitMQ. His background in embedded and scientific software gives him a pragmatic systems mindset that often uncovers efficiency gains others miss. Comfortable leading teams or working solo, he has a track record of reducing compute and memory costs while maintaining high reliability.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Electrical Engineering, BSc, Electrical Engineering at University of the Witwatersrand
English
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Github Skills (200)
nix10
python10
command-line-interface10
runner10
nixos10
linux10
dataclasses10
argparse10
command-line-parser10
cli10
console10
devkit10
nixpkgs10
python-requests10
observer-pattern10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
smartlyio/docker-build-with-cache-action
Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
:octocat: Build and push docker images caching each stage to reduce build time
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years
pushdocker-imagebuildkitcachingdocker
smartlyio/setup-awscli-brotli-action
Feb 2021 - Mar 2023
Inject brotli encoding file extension into Python's mimetypes db
Contributions:6 PRs, 21 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
pythonfile-extensionencodingmimetypesinject
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