Simon Werner
Sofware Team Leader at Garmin New Zealand
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolSimon Werner is a software team leader and inventor with 12 years of professional experience, currently leading software teams at Garmin New Zealand. With a background in mechanical engineering and a BSc(Hons) in Physics, he blends hardware, embedded AI and cloud expertise—having built serverless AWS solutions for large insurers and edge AI for autonomous sailing boats and smart buoys. He founded startups (Anemoi Robotics, Vortex VPN) and led R&D efforts to commercialize IoT and marine-monitoring technology, demonstrating a habit of turning curious prototypes into production systems. Simon’s career includes global enterprise delivery at Zurich where he automated complex insurance processes, plus academic scientific programming that resulted in peer-reviewed papers. Known for hands-on engineering from low-level assembly to serverless architectures, he pairs practical curiosity with stakeholder-facing product and business-analysis skills.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Hons), Physics, Bachelor of Science (Hons), Physics at University of OtagoDiploma, Mechanical Engineering, Diploma, Mechanical Engineering at Auckland University of Technology
English, German, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (159)
accelerometer10
espressif10
imu10
sensor-fusion10
magnetometer10
typescript10
gnome-shell10
attitude10
gyroscope10
driver10
javascript9
mongoose9
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rust9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
psiphi75/worker-kv-poc
Mar 2020 - Jun 2022
Proof-of-concept for Cloudflare's Workers KV store
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 3 months
cloudflarecloudflare-workersrustserverless
psiphi75/compass-hmc5883l
Feb 2016 - Feb 2022
JavaScript interface to the Honeywell HMC5883L 3-axis digital compass IC using i2c
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 6 years 1 month
i2cjavascript
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