Simon Bland
Software Engineer
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Bland is a versatile software engineer and entrepreneur with over 30 years of technical and business experience, blending hands-on development with strategic program leadership. A Cambridge-educated engineer, he has driven data-led aerodynamic research at Rolls-Royce, led international ERP implementations at Price Waterhouse, and managed award-winning data warehousing and billing systems in telecoms. For two decades he ran his own portrait business while building custom business systems—writing C#/MVC/.NET Core plugins, migrating infrastructure to Docker on Linux, and automating payment and tax workflows. He combines deep systems thinking (C#, SQL, Python, AWS) with a talent for translating complex problems into clear, maintainable solutions and has published over 400 educational blog articles and a book on oil painting. Notably, he brings an unusual mix of creative practice and rigorous engineering, routinely applying visual storytelling and process automation to improve business visibility and decision-making.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Engineering, MA, Engineering at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (36)
angular10
couchbase9
material-design9
infrastructure9
multistage8
spring-data8
docker-image7
java7
wordpress7
spring7
cat7
ddd7
spring-boot6
catalina6
ssh5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
simonbland/docker-wordmove
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 month
simonbland/spring-data-couchbase
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 days
spring-bootspring-datacouchbasespringjava
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