Simon Booth
OPE at Self-employed
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarSimon Booth is a pragmatic backend engineer with 13 years’ experience building data-driven services and integrating third-party systems while working remotely from Stevenage, UK. Currently self-employed and collaborating with US-based teams, he specializes in sanitizing and aggregating data for consumer apps in the music space and has a track record of integrating partners and APIs into production systems. An active open-source contributor, Simon has made substantive backend changes to projects like BlackBerry’s WebWorks Community APIs, improving JSON handling and MiniUPnP integration. Comfortable working across the stack, he pairs a hands-off, results-focused approach with strong domain knowledge of media and music industry workflows.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (4)
cprogramming-language10
json10
c-language10
network-programming9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
blackberry/WebWorks-Community-APIs
Apr 2013 - May 2014
Community owned repository containing JavaScript Extensions for BlackBerry WebWorks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Simon contributed significantly to the project by modifying core files, primarily those related to JSON handling and integration with the miniupnpc library. These changes involved updating JSON libraries used by the project, which suggests a focus on the structure and handling of data within the system. The user also added and modified functionality related to the MiniUPnP library.
javascriptextensionsjavascript-extensions
peardox/Spritely
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:110 commits, 109 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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