Simon Smith
Software Developer at Hestor Ltd
Wallasey, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Smith is a pragmatic software developer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and refining backend and frontend components, currently at Hestor Ltd in Wallasey. He contributes to notable open-source projects—improving Node.js system information on Windows, polishing UI details in the kubenav Kubernetes client, and fixing backend issues in LibreNMS—demonstrating cross-stack fluency. Comfortable with platform-specific debugging and UX-focused UI tweaks, he blends low-level Windows process and battery data fixes with clean front-end display improvements. An active community contributor who solicits sponsorships on GitHub, Simon pairs steady production work with ongoing open-source maintenance and subtle but impactful enhancements.
11 years of coding experience
Oldershaw School
Stackoverflow
91reputation
11kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (37)
system-info10
kubernetes10
wp-api10
laravel-mix10
network-monitoring10
winapi10
laravel10
php10
kubernetes-pods10
nodejs10
ws-api10
react10
system-information10
javascript9
rrd9
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
kubenav/kubenav
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
kubenav is the navigator for your Kubernetes clusters right in your pocket.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 11 commits, 10 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the user interface aspects of the Kubenav project. Their commits focused on modifying and updating UI components, specifically within the `ServiceDetails.tsx` and `PodDetails.tsx` files, adding and adjusting how service and pod information is displayed. The contributions involved refining the display of port and protocol information, enhancing the clarity and usability of the application's interface. Additionally, the user addressed a lint issue in the PodDetails component.
navigatorpocketwindowsclusterslinux
librenms/librenms
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 18 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to bug fixes and minor enhancements within the LibreNMS network monitoring system. Their work involved modifying PHP files to address issues related to URL generation in availability maps, progress bar rendering, and adding discrete IPMI sensors. They also adjusted the code to update rrd names related to printer supplies and made a small fix to menu urls.
snmpcommunity-basedlicensedgplphp
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