Simon Barton
Platform Manager
Redditch, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Barton is a pragmatic platform manager and software engineer with 11+ years of hands-on experience building and modernizing backend systems, currently leading API and platform work at Trakm8. He has a proven track record migrating monolithic ingest systems to queue-driven microservices, designing high-selling vehicle-tracking products, and introducing PKI for secure device-server communications. Comfortable across Node.js, Python and PHP, Simon mentors small teams, interviews candidates, and steers technical direction while still contributing code. He combines product-focused engineering with operational awareness gained from onsite integrations (including a multi-week client engagement in Australia). Based in Redditch, he brings steady delivery and practical modernization experience that bridges legacy systems and maintainable, cloud-ready architectures.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Alcester Grammar SchoolComputer Science BSc, Computer Science, Computer Science BSc, Computer Science at Prifysgol Aberystwyth UniversityIT, Maths, English, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, IT, Maths, English, Physics, Biology, Chemistry at Studley High School
English
Stackoverflow
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javascript
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validation
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angularjs
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Github Skills (54)
hapi10
validation10
control-library10
schema10
data-validation9
javascript9
angularjs9
nodejs9
authorization8
kubernetes-service8
npm8
access-control8
html6
sequelizejs6
ambassador6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
simon-barton/node-abac
Feb 2017 - Feb 2021
:raised_hand: Node.js Attributes Based Access Control library
Contributions:2 reviews, 29 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 1 month
authorizationnode-jscontrol-librarynodejsnpm
simon-barton/randorg
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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