Simon Kelly
Senior Director Of Engineering at Dimagi
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolSimon Kelly is a Senior Director of Engineering with 16 years of professional experience and 20+ years of hands-on development exposure, based in Cape Town. He blends systems architecture, full-stack development and people leadership, having progressed from developer and CTO roles to leading server and engineering organizations at Dimagi. Simon is an advocate of agile practices and process-driven recruitment, and he actively mentors engineers while steering product and business-aligned technical strategy. He contributes to high-profile open-source work on distributed PostgreSQL (Citus), demonstrating deep expertise in database migration, catalog management and upgrade strategies. Known for tackling performance bottlenecks and automating operations, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a strong record of improving team delivery and system reliability.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Electrical Engineering, MSc, Electrical Engineering at University of Cape Town
English
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Github Skills (15)
database-migrations10
citus10
database-migration10
postgresql10
sql10
database-design10
distributed-database9
maven6
gwt6
ant6
jar6
log4j6
multithreading6
mysql6
java6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
citusdata/citus
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Simon's commits primarily focus on database schema modifications and upgrade procedures within the Citus extension for PostgreSQL. Their work involves creating, dropping, and modifying tables related to Citus's internal catalog, especially during pg_upgrade processes. The commits show a deep understanding of database migration strategies and how to handle catalog table changes across different versions of the extension. This includes restoring and resetting sequences, dependencies, and triggers.
distributedrelational-databasesqlcitusscale
snopoke/moip-java
Jun 2012 - Aug 2020
A basic Java library for doing direct payments via the MoIP gatway.
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 8 years 3 months
paymentsjava-librarygatwayadyenpaypal
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