Simon Beal
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Beal is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web services and developer-facing tools, currently contributing to Amazon S3 at AWS. He has a track record of modernising demo and production codebases, from performance-critical Python reimplementations that cut memory use dramatically to React-driven complex frontends and CI/CD with Docker. Comfortable across the stack, he blends backend efficiency (Flask, LMDB) with frontend polish and has shipped features that directly improved customer demos and product adoption. An active open-source contributor and pragmatist, he favours measurable gains—such as a 700× memory improvement on a filesystem tool—over theoretical designs. Based in the Greater Cambridge area, he brings deep hands-on delivery experience in both research and cloud environments and a knack for turning complex requirements into maintainable, deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Warwick
Github Skills (58)
filesystem10
python10
translation10
discord10
fuse10
nextcord10
internationalization10
object-storage10
apache10
java10
api-documentation10
localization10
api10
aws10
discord-bot10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
muddyfish/mountpoint-s3
Aug 2024 - Feb 2025
A simple, high-throughput file client for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system.
Contributions:78 pushes, 50 branches in 5 months
muddyfish/PYKE
Feb 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:578 commits, 1 PR, 329 pushes in 1 year 8 months
golfingpythonindevgolfing-language
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