Simon Lieschke
Staff Software Engineer at Orion Health
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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SeniorSimon Lieschke is a Staff Software Engineer based in Ottawa with 15 years of experience building reliable backend systems and mentoring engineering teams. Currently at Orion Health, he focuses on pragmatic, maintainable solutions and brings deep familiarity with server-side Java ecosystems. An active open-source contributor, he’s extended user-agent parsing libraries to accurately recognize evolving browsers like Microsoft Edge, demonstrating attention to real-world HTTP traffic and log-analysis nuances. Colleagues know him for deliberate collaboration—he accepts connections only with prior working relationships—reflecting a preference for focused, trust-based partnerships.
15 years of coding experience
English
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Github Skills (26)
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Github contributions (5)
HaraldWalker/user-agent-utils
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Utilities for processing user-agent strings. Can be used to handle http requests in real-time or to analyze log files.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to adding and maintaining support for different versions of the Microsoft Edge browser within the user-agent utility. Their work involved modifying Java code, specifically within test and core browser classes. They also made adjustments to improve code organization and formatting. The user's contributions focused on expanding the library's ability to accurately identify and categorize various user-agent strings.
http-requestsagentjsinteropstringslog-files
slieschke/SceneSwitcher
Jan 2023 - Jan 2025
A .NET core based scene switcher than connects to OBS and changes scenes based note meta data. Put "OBS:Your Scene Name" as the first line in your notes and ensure the OBS Web Sockets Server is running and this app will change your scene as you change your PowerPoint slides
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches, 15 tags in 2 years
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