Simon is a software engineer, consultant, leader, trainer, founder, speaker, and open-source contributor. He has a passion for building strong digital products for mobile and web. Simon has worked as a front-end engineer at Facebook and at Google, and he is currently providing consulting, training, and development with a focus on React Native.
Create and develop innovative software solutions for different clients across a broad range of industries.
Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.
Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.
Training software engineers across the US in TypeScript, React, React Native and related technologies.
Working with Startups, Corporates and SMEs to scope and build curriculum.
Deliver on-site training to level up the next generation of engineers.
Introduced TypeScript to a performance-sensitive mobile framework that's used in the YouTube main app as well as several other products, such as YouTube creator studio and YouTube kids.
Contributed as part of a technical committee tasked with making architectural decisions for mobile frameworks used within YouTube.
Collaborated with other teams across different orgs in Google, including Dragonglass and Google Search Assistant to help bring innovations from YouTube's mobile framework to other products.
Built and ran the engineering team starting with 3 software engineers, growing to 35 engineers in under 4 years.
My role as technical founder includes hiring, training, making tech choices, and architecting software solutions.
Creating a strong culture of engineering excellence and shipping high-quality software.
Integrated React into various interfaces used by advertisers to create and manage their Facebook ads. Also built the JS tracking pixel for the ads team that is currently in use on over a billion webpages in the world.
Contributed to developer tooling that was used by thousands of engineers inside Facebook and open-sourced to eventually be used by many more thousands of developers around the world.
Trained new hires, including as a bootcamp mentor.
MarketWurks is an application to help market managers run their farmers market (or craft market, bazaar, etc). I scoped and built the initial version of this software including the web interface, the REST API / Backend and the Mobile App. I eventually formed and led a team to continue development of this product. This platform currently has several hundred farmer's markets in 5 countries and is growing each year.