Simon Jones
Engineering Manager at VMware
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Jones is an engineering manager based in New York with 17 years of software experience and 11 years in hands-on engineering roles, known for leading high-performing teams through acquisitions and global change. He has a strong track record at VMware and Pivotal delivering cloud-native build and platform features while balancing legacy maintenance and commercial priorities. Simon actively promotes open source—contributing to Cloud Native Buildpacks and Paketo—and has enhanced the popular buildpacks/pack CLI with deeper inspection and testing improvements. He combines organizational design (consolidating multiple teams into a streamlined functional structure) with a focus on inclusive, sustainable engineering culture and measurable retention during tumultuous periods. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical leadership, mentorship, and for aligning product and open-source ecosystem strategies to drive adoption.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels Computing Maths Physics, A Levels Computing Maths Physics at The Cedars Upper SchoolThe University of Sheffield
Github Skills (8)
docker10
go10
dockers10
buildpack10
cli10
testing9
yaml8
cnc7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
buildpacks/pack
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
CLI for building apps using Cloud Native Buildpacks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 63 commits, 26 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Simon's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the `pack` CLI, specifically addressing features related to buildpack inspection and image management. They implemented changes to include stack mixins in the `inspect-builder` output and added process information to the `inspect-image` output. The user was also involved in modifying the acceptance tests to differentiate lifecycle implementations, suggesting they also have knowledge of the integration and testing aspects of the project.
cloud-native-buildpackscncfbuildpackscloud-nativecli
cloudfoundry/windows-utilities-tests
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 2 months
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