Simon Emms

Backend Engineer

https://talent.gravityer.com/simon-emms

Beekeeper and professional tea-drinker. Loves tinkering. Builds software from time to time.

United Kingdom

Key Strengths

Extensive personal project experience in Go, Shell, and Dockerfile, indicating strong practical skills in backend and DevOps-related areas.
Demonstrated interest in infrastructure as code, GitOps, and development environment tooling (e.g., DevPod, Gitpod, Flux2), which aligns with modern backend engineering practices.
Experience with Temporal workflows (zigflow project) suggests familiarity with distributed systems and reliable execution patterns.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

The candidate's project portfolio is heavily focused on personal, open-source-like contributions, indicating a self-starter and proactive learner. However, the lack of team-based or professional project experience makes it difficult to fully assess cultural fit in a collaborative corporate environment. The projects show a strong inclination towards developer tooling and infrastructure, which could be a good fit for a team working on similar problems.

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills or operational fit. No psychometric test results or interview feedback provided.

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Projects

zigflow

August 1, 2025 – Present

Define durable workflows in YAML, powered by Temporal

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flux2-sops-template

January 22, 2025 – Present

A template for structuring a GitOps repository leveraging flux2 and SOPs

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post-mortems

July 19, 2024 – November 16, 2025

How to run effective incident post-morterms

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devpod-provider-hetzner

June 8, 2023 – Present

DevPod on Hetzner

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devcontainers

March 11, 2023 – Present

Prebuilt development container images

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gitpod-self-hosted

February 3, 2023 – May 21, 2024

Resources for managing your own Gitpod installation

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gitpod-k3s-guide

December 24, 2021 – February 5, 2023

Guide for installing Gitpod on a k3s cluster

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gitpod-single-instance

December 19, 2021 – June 20, 2022

Run Gitpod on your local machine

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pilapse

March 11, 2017 – February 14, 2019

Records a timelapse video from your Raspberry Pi

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developers-manifesto

March 11, 2016 – February 24, 2018

What we stand for...

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Key Strengths

Extensive personal project experience in Go, Shell, and Dockerfile, indicating strong practical skills in backend and DevOps-related areas.
Demonstrated interest in infrastructure as code, GitOps, and development environment tooling (e.g., DevPod, Gitpod, Flux2), which aligns with modern backend engineering practices.
Experience with Temporal workflows (zigflow project) suggests familiarity with distributed systems and reliable execution patterns.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills or operational fit. No psychometric test results or interview feedback provided.

Simon Emms

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit

Top Skills

Skills

Projects

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit