Simon Headley
Back End Engineer at M-KOPA
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Top SchoolSimon Headley is a Back End Engineer with nine years of experience building server-side systems, currently focused on scalable .NET services and cloud-native patterns at M-KOPA. He progressed through multiple senior roles at Derivco, developing deep expertise in .NET, DevOps, Dapr, and container orchestration. Simon combines a strong academic foundation (BSc Computer Science, UKZN) with hands-on experience in CI/CD, Octopus/PowerShell workflows, and distributed microservice architectures. He enjoys rapid learning and applying new technologies to solve real-world problems, often advocating pragmatic cloud and DevOps practices. Based in Durban, he blends production-grade engineering discipline with an appetite for experimentation—Docker and Kubernetes are among his visible tooling loves. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who prefers thinking in architecture and systems rather than individual features.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of KwaZulu-NatalMatric Bachelor's Pass. 4 A's, School Stuff, Matric Bachelor's Pass. 4 A's, School Stuff at Kloof High School
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (65)
serverless10
microservices10
cloud-native10
sidecar10
kubernetes10
pubsub10
event-driven-architecture10
event-driven10
dapr10
state-management10
dotnet9
sink9
cosmosdb9
sonarqube-plugin9
sonarqube9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
KrylixZA/docs
Jan 2024 - Mar 2026
Dapr user documentation, used to build docs.dapr.io
Contributions:23 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 2 months
KrylixZA/Shared-WebApi-Core
Dec 2020 - Jan 2024
Web API Core libraries used to simplify the development of .NET APIs.
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 77 pushes in 3 years
dotnetexception-handlingglobal-exception-handlingjwt-securityswagger-documentation
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