Simon Watkins
GitHub sawatkins
Email simon@sawatkins.com
About
Recent CS graduate from the Los Angeles area. Interested in cloud infrastructure, backend development, and SRE
Projects
Web platform to host and monitor cloud video game servers (TF2). Servers run on EC2 Linux instances provisioned with Terraform and configured via Bash scripts. Monitoring through Prometheus/Grafana with a Go/SQLite backend. A personal project to learn cloud infrastructure and server management.
AWS, Linux, Go, Bash, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana
Search engine focused on indexing personal blog content to find authentic writing from real people. Built with Python and PostgreSQL, deployed on a single-node Kubernetes cluster (k3s) with Prometheus/Grafana/Loki monitoring. Features a multi-threaded scraper with AWS SQS queue. A personal project to improve SQL skills and learn Kubernetes.
Kubernetes, Python, Docker, AWS SQS, PostgreSQL
AI-assisted web app to discover movies using natural language
Listen to calming humpback whale songs with others