Hi there, I'm Simon ?? I'm a Cloud Native engineer and a mentor at the School of Code . I'm based in the beautiful county of Shropshire in the English Midlands . I'm a comedy nerd who once got a thumbs up from Barry Cryer . I've also recorded at Abbey Road Studios and have a number 9 chart hit with John Otway (and 900 others). I keep bees, love being outside in my garden and enjoy tinkering in my workshop. I keep an infrequent blog where I talk all things software engineering and developer culture. ?? I’m looking to collaborate on Cloud Native IoT Open Source Things that you're passionate about and need some help Mentoring new engineers ?? Speaking I've spoken at DevOpsDays , Cloud Native Rejekts , KubeHuddle and KubeCon . I'm always open to other speaking opportunities - please contact me if you would like me to speak at your event. ?? Ask me about Cloud development environments Beekeeping Cloud Native computing ? Fun I once did standup comedy. And didn't die . ?? Pronouns He/him ?? Contact Please visit SimonEmms.com . You can either email me or put a time in my diary . I'm also on Twitter and LinkedIn . ?? My recent contributions mrsimonemms/new - How I scaffold my projects (3 days ago) mrsimonemms/k3s-manager - Automatically manage a k3s deployment (3 days ago) mrsimonemms/simonmakesstuff - Stuff what I have made (6 days ago) mrsimonemms/sveltekit-content - Content driven website using SvelteKit (6 days ago) mrsimonemms/dotfiles - My dotfiles setup (1 week ago) mrsimonemms/priorsleehoney.co.uk - Priorslee Honey website (1 week ago) mrsimonemms/bluebell.family - (1 week ago) mrsimonemms/devcontainers - Prebuilt development container images (1 week ago) mrsimonemms/mrsimonemms.github.io - My website (2 weeks ago) mrsimonemms/vpn - My VPN setup (1 month ago) ?? My latest releases loft-sh/devpod ( v0.5.11 , 1 day ago) - Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker. mrsimonemms/toodaloo ( v0.2.2 , 1 month ago) - Say goodbye to your todos markedjs/marked-mangle ( v1.1.7 , 3 months ago) - mrsimonemms/cookie-session ( v0.1.0 , 3 months ago) - Drop-in replacement for Express session using a cookie mrsimonemms/devpod-provider-hetzner ( v0.1.5 , 7 months ago) - DevPod on Hetzner ? My stats