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.
11 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
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Github Skills (198)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
psiphi75/beaglebone-tips
Apr 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:60 commits, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
omcaree/node-serialgps
Jan 2016 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 PRs in 8 years 11 months
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