Simon Tennant
Technical Product Manager at Blockstream
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolSimon Tennant is a Technical Product Manager with 15 years of experience building consumer internet products across startups and large corporates, now focused on Bitcoin and crypto infrastructure. He blends hands-on engineering and product leadership—assembling and mentoring high-performing developer teams while simplifying organisational complexity and framing hard problems into actionable roadmaps. His background spans SRE, observability, and production engineering at SoundCloud to founding open-source social and energy startups, bringing both operational rigor and entrepreneurial grit. In Bitcoin projects he has shipped Lightning tooling (ZapZap), Kubernetes deployments for Bitcoin nodes, and experimented with mining and Lightning POS hardware, reflecting a rare mix of protocol-level curiosity and product pragmatism. A clear, unpretentious communicator and conference presenter, he teaches himself new stacks (currently Rust) to stay technically credible while driving product decisions. Based in Sydney, he combines deep systems experience with a talent for persuading stakeholders and turning complex distributed systems into usable services.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Hilton CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at University of WarwickToastmasters International - Nashville
German, English
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Github Skills (90)
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api-documentation9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
imaginator/system
Dec 2016 - Jul 2022
Contributions:338 commits, 116 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
imaginator/dotfiles
Feb 2014 - Oct 2022
Contributions:123 commits, 70 pushes in 8 years 10 months
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