Simon Weller
Chief Technology Officer - Service Provider Unit at UDT
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Weller is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with 12+ years of leadership experience building carrier-grade networking and cloud systems, currently heading UDT’s Service Provider Unit from Nashville. He has a track record of turning innovative engineering into market disruption—creating a content delivery platform that stole market share from incumbents and launching carrier voice and education IaaS suites with sustained double-digit growth. Comfortable scaling both startups and established organizations, he blends deep systems and networking expertise with product and business development acumen across R&D, BI, and platform teams. An active contributor to Apache CloudStack, he’s solved tough agent-connectivity, KVM snapshotting, disk-resize, and Hyper-V integration issues that improved platform robustness. Known as a strategic thinker and relationship builder, he moves fluidly between hands-on engineering and executive strategy to deliver measurable commercial outcomes. A former airline-trained pilot by education, he brings a disciplined, safety-minded approach to complex technical program delivery.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
CPL(A) SP-Multi-IR 'C' Cat Instructor Aviation, CPL(A) SP-Multi-IR 'C' Cat Instructor Aviation at International Aviation Academy of New Zealand
Github Skills (9)
javas10
kvm10
apache-cloudstack10
java10
virtualization10
libvirt8
bash6
python6
linux5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cloudstack
Mar 2016 - Nov 2022
Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 12 commits, 11 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on addressing and fixing exceptions related to agent connectivity within the CloudStack platform. They consistently made code adjustments to improve the robustness of the agent's startup process and retry mechanisms. Furthermore, the user contributed to resolving issues related to VM snapshotting on KVM, including handling specific configurations required by the KVM hypervisor. Additionally, they made changes related to disk resizing and the integration of Hyper-V enlightenments for Windows VMs.
pythonapache-cloudstackxcp-nghostingcloud-computing
kiwiflyer/tf-java-api
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Tungsten API
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 month
apiphpjavajava-api
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