JackĀ Fraser-Govil
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorSimon Fraser is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Cisco Meraki with 8 years of experience building, automating, and sustaining large-scale systems using Python and Go. He specializes in turning data into action, collecting and visualizing service metrics with InfluxDB, Graphite, and Grafana to drive a data-driven workflow. With a PhD in Physics and a focus on Genome Variation, he blends rigorous scientific training with practical engineering to solve complex reliability challenges. His career includes senior roles at Mozilla (Release Engineer) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Senior Systems Administrator), plus early work at UUNET, underpinning a deep foundation in both operations and research HPC. He is the author of Python Microservices Development, Second Edition, showcasing his ability to translate architecture and deployment considerations into accessible guidance. Based in Cambridge, UK, he earned a BSc(Hons) in Cybernetics and Computer Science from the University of Reading.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wtsi-hpag/GenCHORD
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
A Bayesian method to smooth-out the noise in a coverage dataset, revealing the underlying average behaviour which is constrained to lie on `Harmonics' of a fundamental coverage value.
Contributions:4 PRs, 151 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
DrFraserGovil/JSL
Jun 2021 - Jan 2025
Code library containing several standard and re-usable functions
Contributions:104 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
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