Simon Janes
Senior Kubernetes & Data Infrastructure Engineer
Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Janes is a Senior Kubernetes & Data Infrastructure Engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native platforms and automation for high-throughput SaaS and data workloads. He designs and operates multi-region Kubernetes clusters across AWS and hybrid data centers, driving GitOps, autoscaling (KEDA), and secure service meshes to reduce operational toil. Skilled in Go, Python, Terraform and custom controllers, he has delivered large-scale batch orchestration handling 100,000+ daily jobs and automated fleet provisioning to significantly cut environment spin-up time and costs. His background spans security-focused roles and bare-metal cluster operations, including full-disk encryption, software RAID, and hardened IAM for regulated environments. Known for pragmatic tooling—CLI utilities, microservices, and documentation pipelines in Go, Rust, and Python—that accelerate developer self-service and observability. Based in Kansas, he brings a systems-first mindset that blends deep implementation experience with measurable reliability and cost improvements.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Associate Degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Penn Foster Group
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Github Skills (189)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sj4nes/helix
Jun 2021 - Jul 2023
A post-modern modal text editor.
Contributions:68 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
contenteditabletext-editingmodalace-editortext-editor
sj4nes/nvim-config
Jun 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:42 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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