Horms Solutions is a small open source and free software development consulting firm based in Amsterdam. The managing director Simon Horman has more than twenty years experience working with free and open source software.

Horms Solutions focuses on how organisations can leverage upstream open source development to provide long-term value to users. This includes software engineering practices using an iterative software development life-cycle covering design, implementation, testing and integration.

Recent Engagements

• Chief Scientist, SmartNICs at Corigine
• Open Source Coordinator & OVS Hardware Offload Architect at Netronome
• Upstream Linux Kernel Renesas ARM SoC Maintainer

Experience at a Glance

• Linux Kernel:
  • IPVS & kexec-tools maintainer
• SDN:
  • Open vSwitch hardware offload maintainer
• High Availability and Load Balancing:
  • HAProxy developer
  • Ldirectord maintainer
• Debian:
  • Debian Maintainer
  • Former member of Linux-HA maintainers and kernel teams.

Blog

Upstream Linux Kernel Development - It's All About the Long Term. Thoughts on the importance of upstream Kernel development. An exploration of the motivation for organisations to invest in development for the upstream Linux kernel. more...

Contact

Simon Horman <simon at horms.net>

Address

Eerste Jan Steenstraat 84A IV

1072 NP Amsterdam

Netherlands