Simon Ko
Software Engineer at ROBLOX
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Ko is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and platform services, most recently as a Senior SRE on Roblox's Cloud Service team. He specializes in AWS and HashiCorp tooling—Terraform (TFE and OSS), Consul, and Vault—alongside Kafka, Python, and Java, and has led end-to-end projects that moved services from CI systems into production-grade Terraform deployments. At Ellie Mae he was the lead engineer for high-availability service discovery and a Kafka-based Message Hub, owning architecture, ACLs, and production rollout, demonstrating a blend of systems design and execution. His background in astrophysics from UC Berkeley informs a data-driven, research-oriented approach—he even built a DSL-backed database abstraction for exoplanet research as an undergrad. Based in Oakland, he brings a pragmatic focus on secure, scalable cloud automation and a habit of turning academic curiosity into production software.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Astronomy and Astrophysics, Bachelor’s Degree Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (27)
json10
modbus10
cosmology9
monitoring9
kafka9
time-series9
golang9
agent9
astrology9
xpath9
python8
influxdb8
prometheus8
aws8
grafana8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Fasian1/fasian1.github.io
Sep 2014 - Jun 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 9 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 10 months
Fasian1/Catscapades
Jun 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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