Simon Lord
Staff Software Engineer at Redpanda Data
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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RockstarSimon Lord is a Staff Software Engineer based in Bristol with 13 years building cloud-native back-end systems and developer-facing infrastructure. Currently at Redpanda Data, he focuses on reliability and automation for streaming platforms, driving cloud configuration verification and secure S3 integrations to make large-scale Kafka-compatible systems operationally robust. His open-source contributions include significant cloud provider integration work in Spinnaker's clouddriver and deep platform-level engineering on Redpanda, demonstrating expertise across GCP, AWS and Oracle BMCS APIs. Known for pragmatic refactors and test-driven infrastructure work, he blends hands-on DevOps with backend engineering to reduce operational toil and surface hard-to-detect misconfigurations before they reach production.
13 years of coding experience
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Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/clouddriver
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
read and write operations across cloud providers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:15 commits, 15 PRs, 21 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the development of the Oracle BMCS provider within the Spinnaker clouddriver project. Their work involved adding initial scaffolding, including the implementation of security credentials, health indicators, and caching agents for network and image resources. They also developed several server group operations, including deployments and resize, and integrations with load balancers, indicating a strong focus on cloud infrastructure management and integration with the cloud provider's API.
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redpanda-data/redpanda
Jun 2023 - Dec 2024
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon implemented and tested cloud configuration verification within the Redpanda cloud infrastructure, specifically focusing on GCP and AWS. They developed an InstallPack client to retrieve configuration profiles and verify the cluster's infrastructure, including instance types, storage sizes, and configurations, against these profiles. Further contributions involved refactoring and moving tests related to cloud infrastructure, along with integrating S3 bucket policies for enhanced security, and also setting up and testing cloud-related observe features.
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