Simon Atkins
Software Engineer I at Trustpilot
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSimon Atkins is a Full Stack Software Engineer based in Edinburgh with eight years of experience building user-focused web applications using TypeScript, React, Node.js and AWS. After a career change via CodeClan, he has shipped B2B signup experiences at Trustpilot and consumer marketplaces and subscription platforms using Next.js, Firebase and payment integrations like Stripe and PayPal. His background in marketing and international experience teaching and translating in the Middle East gives him a rare blend of product empathy, communication skills and cross-cultural perspective. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs practical front-end craftsmanship with solid testing and agile discipline honed at startups and scale-ups. Now focused on opportunities in Edinburgh, he enjoys tinkering with JavaScript ecosystems and turning messy product problems into polished, testable interfaces.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, 1:1, BA, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, 1:1 at The University of EdinburghHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusSAT I & II, SAT I & II at Eastwood College, LebanonDigital Marketing, Digital Marketing at Google Squared OnlineComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, SQA Level 8, Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, SQA Level 8 at CodeClan
English, Arabic
Github Skills (4)
ethereum3
solidity3
blockchain3
frontend2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
this-is-simon/InternetTrollAdoptionCentre_web_app
Mar 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
this-is-simon/catch-of-the-day
Nov 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:37 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
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