Siggi Simonarson
Founder at BuildBuddy
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolSiggi Simonarson is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-facing infrastructure, currently leading BuildBuddy (YC W20) out of Palo Alto. A former Google senior engineer and Area 120 co-founder, he has deep experience shipping scalable developer tooling and productizing internal experiments. He blends startup grit with Google-scale engineering practices, focusing on performance and developer productivity. Educated at Virginia Tech and shaped by early internships at Google, his background suggests a knack for turning developer pain points into commercially viable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
W2020, W2020 at Y CombinatorBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Virginia TechThomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
English, Icelandic
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Github Skills (73)
messaging10
remote-execution10
streaming10
stomp10
rabbitmq10
helm10
golang10
reasoning10
scalable10
protobuf10
grpc10
logic10
kubernetes10
typescript10
build-system10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
buildbuddy-io/buildbuddy-foss
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
BuildBuddy FOSS is a read-only mirror of BuildBuddy, with all proprietary code removed. NOTE: This repo is synced automatically from the main BuildBuddy repo. Please raise any issues and PRs there.
Contributions:3 commits, 16846 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
siggisim/test-repo
Dec 2021 - Nov 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
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