Simon Brewster
Lead Software Engineer at WSD
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSimon Brewster is a Lead Software Engineer in London with 11 years’ experience designing and delivering high‑scale, mission‑critical systems for top-tier banks and enterprise clients. He combines hands‑on architecture, backend and infrastructure work—owning API gateways, identity, logging and pub/sub services—with platform engineering, developer portals and CI/CD automation. Comfortable across Java, Node.js, serverless AWS stacks and Terraform, he’s built full products from scratch and led integrations like SAML/OIDC SSO and workflow engines linking multiple products. A pragmatic mentor and operator, he’s known for shipping reliable systems that support high‑throughput identity and trading workflows, and for translating complex domain requirements into maintainable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Honours Ancient History, BA Honours Ancient History at Cardiff UniversitySt. Edward's SchoolPRINCE2
Github Skills (114)
windows10
javascript10
linux10
api10
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winston10
rocket10
macos10
nodejs10
django9
rest9
logger9
mock-server9
mocking9
django-rest-framework9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ssbrewster/tag-api-explorer
Jan 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
node-expressexpressjsmongomongo-mongoosejavascript
ssbrewster/auth0hack
May 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
reactbrowserspotifylocationfetch
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