Simon Maynard
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Maynard is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building products across finance, defence, telecoms, mobile gaming and developer tools from San Francisco. As co-founder and CTO of Bugsnag, he helped create real-time crash detection and diagnostic tooling used across backend and mobile stacks, blending product instincts with hands-on engineering. He is polyglot across Ruby/Rails, Java/Android, Objective‑C/iOS, Python/Django and Node.js, and has contributed to high-profile open-source error-monitoring SDKs such as Bugsnag’s Android and Ruby libraries. Simon excels at solving hard engineering problems—optimizing memory and exception handling in mobile SDKs and improving error reporting across frameworks—while scaling teams and shipping reliable systems. His background in systems architecture and mathematics gives him a pragmatic, analytical approach to product and technical leadership.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Norton KnatchbullBachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computing, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computing at University of Bath
Github Skills (21)
error-reporting10
debugging10
debug10
laravel-mix10
android-sdk10
laravel10
java10
ruby10
javas10
php10
sinatra10
android10
bugsnag10
error-log10
crash-reports10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bugsnag/bugsnag-ruby
Jun 2012 - Apr 2019
BugSnag error monitoring & reporting software for rails, sinatra, rack and ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:307 commits, 43 PRs, 88 pushes in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the BugSnag Ruby library by addressing various issues related to exception handling, including fixing template exceptions and handling unhandled exceptions. They modified the codebase to correctly support in-project lines within Sinatra applications. Furthermore, they worked on configuring the project root, added test applications, and updated regular expressions, showing a focus on enhancing the core functionality of the error monitoring and reporting software. Additional contributions involved updating middleware functionality.
bug-tracking-toolerror-monitoringrackexception-handlinghotel-booking
bugsnag/bugsnag-laravel
Mar 2014 - Dec 2016
BugSnag notifier for the Laravel PHP framework. Monitor and report Laravel errors.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily worked on the Bugsnag Laravel package, updating the notifier's configuration and integrating it with Laravel and Lumen applications. Their contributions involved setting the strip path, updating the version, and integrating user authentication for error reporting. They also updated configuration files to match the Laravel 5 format.
monitorerror-notificationerror-monitoringexception-handlingnotifications
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