Simon Colmer
Software Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarSimon Colmer is a software engineer with 14 years' experience, currently leading development at Access NFP Websites from London. He blends hands-on engineering with QA and test automation expertise, notably improving integration tests and reliability for a .NET Slack API client. As creator of the @noobot project, he demonstrates a knack for practical automation and community-focused tooling. Simon excels at making systems more robust and maintainable through thoughtful refactoring and clearer test design. He brings an operator’s mindset to development—prioritising repeatability, consistency, and pragmatic solutions that scale for nonprofit and open-source contexts.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
158reputation
11kreached
1answer
5questions
Github Skills (16)
integration-testing10
unit-testing10
slack-api10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
test-automation10
netframework10
json8
azure-resource-manager6
azure-powershell6
asp-net6
asp-net-mvc6
azure6
identityserver6
azure-web-app-service6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Inumedia/SlackAPI
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
.NET Implementation of the Slack team communication platform API.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Simon focused on writing integration tests for the Slack API client library. They refactored existing tests, added new tests for features like joining direct message channels, and made the tests more robust. The user also implemented a system for connecting to the Slack API using user and bot tokens, and cleaned up the tests for better consistency and readability.
apidotnetapi-platformslack-teamcommunication
CancerVaccine/cancervaccine.github.io
Nov 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:483 commits, 26 PRs, 781 pushes in 1 year
rebuild
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