René Simon
Principal Engineer at SOFTGAMES
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRené Simon is a Principal Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of hands-on experience building and architecting backend-heavy web and game services. At SOFTGAMES he has driven architecture, engineering standards, technical due diligence and cross-team workflow optimizations while mentoring developers and running workshops. He combines deep Node.js/JavaScript backend experience with a practical background in JEE, PHP and system engineering, enabling him to bridge legacy and modern stacks. René is known for proactively defining and enforcing coding standards to prevent mistakes and scale engineering quality across multiple projects. Outside day-to-day development he actively seeks knowledge exchange and teaching opportunities, making him as much a coach as a technologist. His trajectory from system administration to principal-level architecture highlights a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to reliable software delivery.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Applied Computer Science at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
German, English
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Github Skills (133)
testing10
node-redis10
javascript10
redis-client10
rest10
admin10
typescript10
nodejs10
mongodb10
asynchronous10
redis10
facebook10
orm10
redis-cluster10
odm10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TarSzator/dev-kit
Mar 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch, 48 tags in 3 years 10 months
TarSzator/jest-open-handle-test
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
Project to reproduce a probable issue in Jest and show source to trigger error
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 11 months
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