Simon Baird
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Elsevier | Mendeley
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Baird is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in London with 11 years’ experience building resilient back-end platforms across publishing and finance. At Elsevier/Mendeley he serves as the senior technical representative and delegate architect, driving ADRs, technical reviews, reliability standards, and cross-team integration while overseeing regulatory, security, and commercial onboarding concerns. He combines hands-on engineering—CI/CD, cloud deployments, performance and incident tooling—with people and vendor management, including offshore steering and hiring senior candidates. Curious about data science and functional programming, he blends pragmatic system design with an eye for analytics and reuse to reduce duplication across enterprise teams.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Birkbeck, University of LondonGithub contributions (5)
srbaird/AccountServiceApp
Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
srbaird/AccountServiceApplication
Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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