Dylan Simmer
Senior Software Engineer at Smokeball Australia
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Simmer is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with eight years of experience designing, building and deploying complex enterprise web platforms—particularly in financial and government contexts—using React, Python and Go. He combines full-stack delivery with strengths in QA, test automation and scalable backend systems, and has led aspects of $10M+ project budgeting, planning and control systems design. Dylan has moved between hands-on front-end work and infrastructure responsibilities like CI/CD and AWS deployment, and contributed to open-source projects such as a full-stack implementation for the Netrunner card game. Comfortable in small teams and large organisations alike, he brings an engineer’s rigor from electrical/control-system roots to software architecture and reliable production delivery.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Diploma of Engineering Studies, Electrical, In progress, Bachelor of Engineering, Diploma of Engineering Studies, Electrical, In progress at University of Technology, SydneyEnglish, Physics, Mathematics Ext. 2, Chemistry, Software Design & Development, Engineering Studies, English, Physics, Mathematics Ext. 2, Chemistry, Software Design & Development, Engineering Studies at Girraween High School
English
Github Skills (10)
clojure10
netrc10
net10
websocket10
runner10
clojure-cli10
performance-testing9
testing9
javascript8
reagent8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mtgred/netrunner
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily contributed to the Netrunner card game project by implementing various features and fixing bugs. They added functionality to display the position of cards, corrected the logic of the "No One Home" card, and added the option to manually flip the Earth Station identity card. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the client-side code related to chat functionality and added a load test script to assist with performance testing. The user touched both frontend and backend components.
Dolmant/threeObj
Jun 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:9 PRs, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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