Simon Childs
Senior Software Engineer at Spendesk
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Childs is a senior software engineer and co-founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native SaaS and migrating large monoliths to microservices using .NET, Node.js, TypeScript and React. He has repeatedly led engineering efforts from early product-market fit at Sonovate to production integrations and platform work at Spendesk and Moneybox, with deep experience in Azure, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and observability-driven fixes. Comfortable across backend, frontend and infrastructure, he champions TDD, CI/CD and developer experience (for example creating service templates and VS Code tasks to streamline team delivery). As a founder of Clearbenchmark he combines product empathy with technical ownership, shipping a revenue-focused platform for MSPs on Azure. Pragmatic and data-driven, he has designed systems to prevent real-world issues such as duplicate request handling via an idempotency framework. Based in Cardiff, he pairs mentorship and team leadership with a track record of architecting resilient, scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (91)
xero10
dotnet10
sdk10
typescript10
azure9
controller9
azure-functions9
mustache9
dotnet-core9
model-view-controller9
handlebars9
csharp9
docker-compose8
linux8
azure-sdk8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
csharpsi/MockApi
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
apilookproviderprovider-apiroutes
csharpsi/webmerge.net
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 release, 20 PRs, 27 pushes in 7 months
apicsharpc-library
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