Simon Merrick
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Stronghold
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolSimon Merrick is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, cloud-native infrastructure and developer workflows from Christchurch, New Zealand. He has driven resilient AWS architectures and PCI‑level compliance as sole owner of payments infrastructure, while also shaping CI/CD, SRE-focused monitoring, and automation to reduce toil. A polyglot generalist who moved from OpenStack contributions and multi-region cloud engineering into senior cloud roles, he combines hands-on coding (Python, Go, Terraform) with strong operational discipline. Active in the community as Secretary of Python New Zealand, speaker and organiser, he brings practical open-source experience and a knack for turning compliance and operational complexity into repeatable, low-friction delivery.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Software Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering at University of Canterbury
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Github Skills (126)
terraform10
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matrix10
hashicorp10
graph10
terraform-provider-openstack10
aws10
lambda-layers10
terraform-cloud9
sdk9
api9
api-client9
api-platform9
declarative9
rest-api9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
iokiwi/programming-in-logic
Jul 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
iokiwi/jsd-bulk-customer-upload
Dec 2018 - Feb 2021
Jira Service Desk Bulk Customer Upload
Contributions:24 commits, 14 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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