Simon Armstrong
Software Engineer at Self-employed
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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SeniorSimon Armstrong is a pragmatic software engineer from Auckland with 12 years of professional experience building embedded graphics, GIS tooling, HFT systems, and consumer apps, and a long history of self-directed product and contract work dating back to the Amiga era. He combines low-level systems craft—embedded 3D renderers, map display stacks and hardware integration—with modern research projects in diagnostics, audio and LLM comprehension, shipping both production features and prototypes. Comfortable across the full stack, Simon has repeatedly delivered niche domain solutions (topographic tile services, GIS tool-chains, scheduling and scoring systems) and tuned high-performance trading and media systems for latency and reliability. He mentors peers and takes a detail-oriented approach to debugging and optimization, favoring careful, testable implementations over flashy shortcuts. An entrepreneurial technologist, he continues to blend consultancy, product experimentation and hands-on engineering rather than following a single corporate trajectory.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (134)
visual-studio10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
javascript9
3d-models9
rust9
wsl29
gis9
playcanvas9
collada9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
nitrologic/bbarchives
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
nitrologic/roagrid
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:67 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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