Simon Alford
Director - Software Architecture at Smith Myers Communications Ltd
Biggleswade, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Alford is a hands-on Director of Software Architecture with over two decades building turn-key hardware and software systems, now leading architecture and development at Smith Myers Communications. He steers the team behind the award-winning ARTEMIS airborne search-and-rescue system while remaining active in full-stack development across C++, Python, JavaScript and embedded Linux. His deep background in GSM/UMTS/LTE base-station products gives him rare domain expertise in cellular protocols and network infrastructure, applied to aviation-grade radio systems. A pragmatic leader who moved his company into aviation product space, he combines systems-level thinking with low-level protocol and production tooling experience, from protocol decoders to hardware verification and deployment pipelines. Based in Biggleswade, he pairs a Computer Science degree from Southampton with a career-long habit of shipping field-hardened, safety-critical communications software.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, 2:1, BSc, Computer Science, 2:1 at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (25)
apache9
google-chrome9
c-extension8
vscode-extension8
typescript7
git-graph7
cpp7
macos6
vscode6
php6
windows6
linux6
chunked-encoding6
multithreading6
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SimonAlfie/websocketpp
Jul 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 tag in 10 months
cppwebsocketsboost-asioclient-serverwebsocket
Changaco/fabricate
Apr 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 3 months
any-languagedependenciesbuild-tool
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