Simon Law
Member Of Technical Staff at Tailscale
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Law is a pragmatic Member of Technical Staff with 16 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across startups and large platforms, currently at Tailscale in San Francisco. He combines hands-on engineering—architecture, coding, and testing—with product and customer-focused thinking, having led major pivots like Quantcast’s move to a self-serve advertising platform. His background spans distributed systems, cloud migrations, and database reliability (notably HBase at Facebook) as well as product-focused roles from carbon-mapping at Ecometrica to fintech automation at TrustCentric. Simon is a generalist who mentors teams, drives process improvements, and values asking the right questions as much as shipping code. He has a track record of cost-saving infrastructure work (e.g., cutting hosting costs by ~80%) and a habit of turning hackathon prototypes into shipped products.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Earl Haig S.S.B.A.Sc Computer Engineering, B.A.Sc Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French, Chinese
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Github Skills (200)
programming-language10
image-processing10
sourcegraph10
image-viewer10
interpreter10
tailscale10
wireguard10
security10
protoc10
code-generation10
tesseract10
vpn10
code-search10
protocol-buffers10
expression-language10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ecometrica/gdal2mbtiles
Sep 2012 - May 2013
Converts a GDAL-readable dataset into an MBTiles file. This is used to generate web maps.
Contributions:171 commits in 8 months
readabledatasetgdalweb-mapsmbtiles
MontmereLimited/django-lean
Oct 2009 - Jul 2010
Git fork of django-lean. Works with python3 and django 1.6
Contributions:42 commits in 8 months
pythondjangodjango-blogpython3lean
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