Simon Robb
Co-Founder, CTO at Packsmith
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolSimon Robb is a technology leader and founder with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems, frontend products, and hardware-enabled platforms. As Co-Founder and CTO of Packsmith he’s reinventing ecommerce fulfillment by combining distributed systems, pragmatic design, and logistics to enable home-based inventory and sustainable last-mile shipping. His background includes senior engineering and management roles at Uber where he contributed to M3, a prominent open-source distributed TSDB, improving asynchronous replication, instrumentation and observability. Earlier ventures show a pattern of turning domain expertise into products—from precision agriculture sensors at Touch Farm to industrial IoT at Oden—and leading frontend teams to market at Architizer. Trained as a structural engineer, he brings systems thinking and a builder’s mindset to software and physical-product challenges. Colleagues describe him as optimistic and product-focused, chasing visionary outcomes through practical engineering.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Launceston Church Grammar SchoolThe University of Melbourne
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
asynchronous10
async10
distributed-systems10
tsd10
go10
replication10
metric10
aggregator9
prometheus8
kubernetes-pods8
kubernetes8
query-engine7
external6
html6
angularjs6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
m3db/m3
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
M3 monorepo - Distributed TSDB, Aggregator and Query Engine, Prometheus Sidecar, Graphite Compatible, Metrics Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 15 PRs, 58 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on enhancing the M3DB client's asynchronous replication capabilities. Their contributions include implementing replication logic, adding metrics, and instrumenting the async worker pool for improved monitoring and performance analysis. They made changes to error handling and metrics to ensure better visibility into replication success and failures. Additionally, the user worked on optimizing the client configuration and introducing subscopes for metrics, showing expertise in system instrumentation and asynchronous processing.
distributedquerymonorepoquery-enginesidecar
simonrobb/uber-boggle
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:33 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
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