Simon Billingsley
Lead Kotlin Developer at Lendable
Ipswich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Billingsley is a Lead Kotlin Developer and engineering leader with over two decades of software experience and more than a decade focused on backend systems, currently building SaaS payments platforms using Kotlin and Vert.x. He has a strong track record of modernising legacy systems—migrating stored-procedure monoliths to microservices, raising test coverage above 80%, and adopting GitOps and trunk-based development to accelerate delivery. Comfortable across Java, C/C++, modern JavaScript, and cloud-native tooling, he pairs hands-on architecture work with security stewardship around container and dependency scanning. As a former VP of Engineering, he has scaled distributed teams across regions and timezones while still contributing code, even stepping into Android when needed. Based in Ipswich, UK, he is an IntelliJ devotee who combines pragmatic engineering with a keen eye for operational resilience and secure, scalable payment systems.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PGC Part of Marconi Masters Degree in International Technology Management, PGC Part of Marconi Masters Degree in International Technology Management at University of Warwick - Warwick Business SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Wolverhampton
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Github Skills (193)
devsecops10
vulnerability-scanners10
lte10
sbom10
security10
vulnerability-detection10
k8s10
cnf10
misconfiguration10
static-analysis10
snap10
secrets10
golang10
vulnerabilities10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
KodyPay/kp-protocols-clientsdk
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
gRPC protocols for client-sdk
Contributions:4 releases, 98 reviews, 10 PRs in 9 months
sishbi/tt
Nov 2017 - Jan 2022
Times Table Master
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 2 months
times-tabletimesmaster
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