Simon Horne
Software Developer at ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Horne is a seasoned software developer with 17 years of experience building scalable web and data systems across startups and finance in New York. He has led platform and tech teams through large migrations—from monolithic Rails apps to containerized microservices on Docker/CoreOS and AWS—and has deep hands-on expertise in Ruby/Rails, Java, Ember/React frontends, and real-time messaging architectures. His background spans high-traffic consumer launches, financial transaction systems, and city-scale embedded device networks, reflecting a strong blend of backend APIs, data engineering, and visualization work. Known for taking technical ownership of complex migrations and delivery workflows, he also designs developer tooling and CI/CD pipelines (Vagrant/Packer/Atlas, Dokku) to streamline deployments. He pairs formal training in software engineering and AI with pragmatic leadership, often stepping into tech-lead roles that bridge product, ops, and engineering.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Diploma, Software Development (part time), Postgraduate Diploma, Software Development (part time) at The Open UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Software Engineering & Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Software Engineering & Artificial Intelligence at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (75)
aws-services10
command-line-tool10
paas10
keybase10
docker10
aws10
pgp9
end-to-end-encryption9
coreos9
chat9
react-native9
react9
wallet8
pgbouncer8
hubot8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
soulware/docker-clean
May 2016 - Mar 2023
A script that cleans docker containers, images, volumes, and networks.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
containersdocker-imagevolumesdockerdocker-containers
soulware/elide
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:95 PRs, 613 pushes, 551 branches in 4 months
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