Simon Abbott
Senior Software Engineer at Airfordable
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Abbott is a Senior Software Engineer based in Saint Paul, Minnesota with six years of hands-on experience building and testing web applications. He progressed from full-stack development to senior engineering at Airfordable, demonstrating steady growth in responsibility and ownership since joining in 2021. Simon contributes to open-source testing tooling—improving Vitest’s automocking and edge-case test coverage—which highlights his attention to reliability and QA automation. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Lawrence University and pairs pragmatic engineering with a tester’s mindset to reduce regressions and improve developer experience.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Lawrence University
Github Skills (11)
testkit10
mstest10
teste10
ui-testing10
test-automation10
testing10
typescript-types9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
vite8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vitest-dev/vitest
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Next generation testing framework powered by Vite.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to improving the testing framework of the vitest project. Their commits involved fixing bugs related to mock properties, handling unsettable keys during automocking, and allowing references to the first seen value during automocking. They also added tests for mocked classes, getters, setters, and streams to ensure the framework's functionality.
mswtestingtest-frameworkvitetesting-tools
simon-abbott/testing
Mar 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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