Simon Krol
Software Development Engineer II (Generative AI Solutions)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSimon Krol is a Software Development Engineer II specializing in generative AI solutions with a decade of experience building production systems at AWS and prior engineering roles at Microsoft. He blends a strong software engineering foundation from Carleton University with hands-on cloud and backend experience gained through internships and full-time roles at Amazon, Shopify, and Solace. At AWS he focuses on turning research-grade AI ideas into scalable, automatable services that simplify workflows and accelerate developer productivity. Simon’s background as a teaching assistant and ITS analyst highlights his aptitude for clear technical communication and mentorship alongside deep engineering chops. Based in Ottawa, he thrives on projects that both automate real-world problems and expose him to smart collaborators, and he actively shares code and experiments via his GitHub.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering at Carleton UniversityHigh School Mathematics Computer Science, High School Mathematics Computer Science at All Saints Catholic High School
English, French
Github Skills (66)
retrieval-augmented-generation10
aws-serverless10
load-testing10
amazon-ecr10
aws-apigateway10
serverless-applications10
amazon-glacier10
api10
dynamodb10
on-the-fly10
lambda10
elasticache10
amazon-lex10
chatbot10
amazon-efs10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
simonkrol/GithubContributions
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
Python Web Scraper used to respond to SMS messages with information about a GitHub user
Contributions:30 commits, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
python-webscrapersms
simonkrol/dining-form
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:61 commits, 44 pushes, 20 branches in 11 months
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