simonmicro
Software Engineer
Germany
Summary
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Rockstarsimonmicro is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and deploying full-stack and DevOps solutions across desktop, embedded, and server ecosystems. Based in Germany, he contributes to open-source projects ranging from Cinnamon desktop applets—where he built a feature-rich wallpaper manager integrating Unsplash, Bing and other sources—to containerized Python services, improving Docker multi-arch builds, IPv6, and SQLite handling for KMS emulators. He blends UI polish and animation work with low-level deployment fixes, demonstrating comfort across front-end UX, internationalization for an open smartwatch OS, and infrastructure hardening. Notably, his contributions show an attention to production robustness (entrypoints, permissions, environment var handling) alongside user-centric features like localized UI and image manipulation. Colleagues would describe him as a developer who moves seamlessly between hacking on visuals and tightening deployment pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
53reputation
6kreached
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Github Skills (43)
apim10
javascript10
c-language10
docker10
python10
i18n-node10
internationalization10
ui-design10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
uid10
localization10
api10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
Py-KMS-Organization/py-kms
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
KMS Server Emulator written in Python
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 111 commits, 47 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Simonmicro's primary contributions revolve around enhancing the project's deployment and containerization aspects. They made improvements to the Docker configuration, introducing new entrypoint systems, and fixing issues related to SQLite database integration within the Docker environment. They also focused on correcting file permissions and ensuring the correct handling of environment variables for a more robust and streamlined deployment process. Further commits involved setting up and managing the execution environment of the python application.
emulatorpythonwindowsvolume-licenseserver-emulator
Open-Smartwatch/open-smartwatch-os
May 2021 - Jan 2023
The Open-Smartwatch Operating System.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 265 reviews, 565 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Simonmicro contributed significantly to the open-smartwatch-os project by implementing and enabling language support. Their contributions focused on integrating internationalization and localization features, as evidenced by the creation of header files for different locales (German and US English) containing translations for UI elements. The user also modified application code (time from web, BLE media control, and stopwatch) to utilize the new language support system. Additionally, the user added functionality for a BLE media control application, including the integration of a name.
operating-systemoperatingsmartwatchmod-manager
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