Simon Witheridge
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Cisco
Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Witheridge is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building resilient cloud infrastructure and automation across companies like Cisco, Expedia Group and The Walt Disney Company. A Linux enthusiast and bash power-user, he pairs deep systems administration skills with software engineering fluency in Go, Python, Ruby and SQL databases to drive reliable continuous deployment pipelines. As a Certified Scrum Master and Agile evangelist, he blends technical delivery with culture change to scale teams and improve operational practices. His background spans platform engineering, DevOps consulting and automation work for both enterprise and product teams, with regular focus on AWS-centered architectures. Notably, he transitioned from scientific programming and game-focused studies into production engineering, bringing an analytical, research-driven approach to SRE challenges. Based in Chesterfield, UK, Simon is especially strong at turning manual runbooks into automated, observable systems that reduce toil and accelerate shipping.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Games Programming, Computer Science, Games Design, 3D modelling, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Games Programming, Computer Science, Games Design, 3D modelling, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics at De Montfort University
Github Skills (31)
container7
harbor7
operating-system7
vtt7
docker7
hosting6
flexibility6
docker-registry6
nodejs6
helm6
linux6
kubernetes6
container-management6
container-registry5
cloud-native5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DevOpsPlayground/Hands-on-with-Docker-and-Dockerizing-applications
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 3 months
sirisaacnuketon/handsondevops
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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