Simon Mayes
Engineering Manager at comparethemarket.com
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Mayes is an Engineering Manager in London with 11 years of hands-on software engineering and platform leadership, currently driving Observability and Developer Experience at comparethemarket.com. He blends technical depth across front-end, backend microservices, DevOps and cloud platforms with a rare focus on people and behaviour change to make teams more self-sufficient. His work spans transforming release practices, introducing automated testing and CI/CD, and breaking down the “throw it over the fence” mentality by building knowledge resources and developer tools. Previously he led platform and product improvements that reduced vendor lock-in, improved performance and accelerated delivery, and even successfully pivoted a BI proof-of-concept to a sold product. Outside work he’s a climber, bringing the same problem-solving creativity and steadiness to both technical challenges and the crag.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Maths, Physics and Computing, Maths, Physics and Computing at Hurstpierpoint College
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Github Skills (37)
docker-in-docker10
ubuntu10
rootless10
mysql9
htaccess9
php9
github-actions-runner8
runner8
database6
stdout6
amazon-ec26
css6
docker6
populate6
amazon-ebs6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
msyea/msyea.github.io
Jun 2015 - Mar 2021
The personal site of Simon Mayes
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 1 PR in 5 years 9 months
simon
msyea/github-actions-runner-rootless
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
Dockerised GitHub Actions self-hosted runner using ubuntu and rootless-dind
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 74 commits in 6 months
dindhosteddockerself-hosted-actionsself-hosted-runner
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