Simon Barrett
Senior Platform Engineer
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Barrett is a Senior Platform Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and standardising cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling. He has delivered reusable IaC patterns, modular Terraform templates and GitHub Actions workflows to accelerate microservice deliveries and reduce maintenance overhead for both greenfield and legacy .NET systems. Comfortable liaising with senior stakeholders, he has led knowledge transfer and sprint ceremonies while supporting cloud discovery, well-architected reviews and production incident response. Simon pairs formal MSc training in Software Engineering with practical certifications and a background of international roles that sharpened his communication and leadership skills. Outside the console he’s a programmer, occasional teacher and enthusiastic drummer — a sign he brings creativity and rhythm to team collaboration and problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc Software Engineering, Master of Science - MSc Software Engineering at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
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Github Skills (30)
parse9
tinder8
graphql8
parse-server8
parse-platform8
shazam8
dashboard8
nodejs8
uicollectionview5
collectionview5
animation5
swift4
uikit4
swipe-gestures3
swiftui3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mightymango/oba-parse
Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
Example server using Express and the parse-server module.
Contributions:223 pushes in 1 year 3 months
expressjsparse-serverexpressnodejsparse
mightymango/autorotate
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 27 commits, 26 pushes in 12 days
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