Simon Bloom
Senior Software Engineer at Mercury
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Bloom is a senior software engineer and full-stack JavaScript specialist with 11 years of experience building production web applications from Toronto. He has held technical leadership and senior engineering roles at fintech and SaaS companies including Mercury and Wealthsimple, and previously taught and authored the foundational React curriculum used at HackerYou. Comfortable shipping pixel-perfect front ends and pragmatic back-end integrations, he’s worked across React, Vue, Angular and custom PHP systems while leading teams to maintain rigorous code and design standards. Simon’s background in theatre and English gives him a rare strength in communication, user-focused product thinking, and curriculum development alongside deep technical craft. He regularly moves between hands-on delivery and mentoring, prioritizing clarity, testability, and maintainability in complex codebases.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MFA Theatre Directing, MFA Theatre Directing at University of AlbertaCombined Honours English & Theatre Studies, Combined Honours English & Theatre Studies at University of King's College
English, French
Github Skills (50)
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open-source10
api10
heroicons9
octicons9
icon-pack9
api-rest9
react9
graphql8
gatsby8
react-native8
in-scope7
fastest7
topojson7
frontend7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
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