Simon Weald
Site Reliability Engineer at Giant Swarm
Horsham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Weald is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years' experience building and automating resilient infrastructure, currently helping enterprises run managed microservices at Giant Swarm. He specialises in orchestration, automation and replacing "pets with cattle," with hands-on experience in Kubernetes, Docker, Packer, Puppet and Ansible from running large-scale VM and container platforms. Previously he led Linux operations and automation projects at a high-security cloud provider, re-imaging 700+ hosts with minimal downtime and operating an HA Puppet cluster controlling 1,100+ agents. A pragmatic team lead who moved from customer-facing roles into ops, he pairs strong people skills with a taste for open source and "eventually consistent" system design.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (hons), Computer Network Management and Design, BSc (hons), Computer Network Management and Design at University of Portsmouth
Github Skills (200)
container-management10
testing10
exporter10
automation10
k8s10
operator10
mesh10
api10
vagrant10
editors10
filesystem10
upstream10
python10
giant-swarm10
prometheus-exporter10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
giantswarm/release-operator
Jun 2019 - Aug 2022
The release-operator manages chart configs for new releases.
Contributions:1 review, 4 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 1 month
golangchartconfigsoperatorgo
giantswarm/credentiald
Jun 2019 - Aug 2022
credentiald manages credentials for cloud environments
Contributions:5 commits, 11 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 1 month
gcpsecuritycloudkubernetescloud-environments
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