Hi, I'm Simon

After years of web engineering, I got pulled into ML. Now I'm CTO at Smart11, a small team turning camera footage into football intelligence.

Writing

Mar 2026 The boring parts of computer vision — I spend maybe 20% of my time on the cool stuff: training models, custom algorithms, implementing clever tricks. The rest is labeling data, staring at metrics, fixing Docker builds, and drawing debug overlays on video frames.

May 2025 Signal technology salaries — The CEO earns $785k/year at a nonprofit that asks for donations. I looked into Signal's finances.

Sep 2020 Cleaning audio speech files for tmi-archive — Using Facebook's denoiser and various speech-to-text models to clean up 1500+ meditation talks.

Dec 2019 Vulnerability detection in 410k WordPress websites — 42.3% of WordPress sites had at least one known vulnerability — 14.6 billion daily page views affected.