Simon Brunning
Software Engineer at thoughtworks
London, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorSimon Brunning is a London-based Software Engineer with 15 years' experience building Java and Python web applications in agile environments. He combines hands-on engineering and test automation skills with a track record of improving CI stability and test coverage, notably contributing bug fixes and enhanced edge-case tests to the PyHamcrest project. As a long-time practitioner of Agile and technical principal-level thinking, he excels at turning complex problems into well-tested, maintainable solutions. A thoughtful communicator and mentor, he brings pragmatic leadership informed by prior public-sector experience and a passion for clean, reliable tooling.
15 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (11)
python10
test-automation10
testing10
exception-handling9
dep8
deprecated8
flask6
oop6
csv6
dictionary6
virtualenv6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hamcrest/PyHamcrest
Sep 2018 - Nov 2022
Hamcrest matchers for Python
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 releases, 6 reviews, 100 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to bug fixes and test coverage improvements within the `pyhamcrest` repository. They addressed issues related to broken CI builds by removing problematic flags. Further work included adding test coverage for specific edge cases related to exception handling and improving mismatch descriptions. The user also deprecated older methods and fixed the deprecation warnings related to it.
pythonhamcrest-matchershamcrestmatcherspython3
brunns/mbtest
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Opinionated Python wrapper & utils for the Mountebank over the wire test double tool
Contributions:41 releases, 10 reviews, 419 commits in 4 years 8 months
pythontest-reportingtestingpython-wrapperdouble
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