Simon Date
Adapt Learning Consultant & Developer at Adapt Tips
Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Date is an Adapt Learning consultant and developer with 12 years’ experience helping organizations build responsive, accessible e‑learning at scale. He has led Adapt implementations and custom plugin development for over 25 agencies and in-house teams, including the NHS, Shelter and the Office for National Statistics, and contributes to the open-source Adapt Authoring Tool. As founder of Adapt Freelancer, Adapt Unlimited and Adapt Tips (with an associated podcast), he blends hands-on front-end engineering—React, Backbone, Node—with training, documentation and long‑term support. Known for translating pedagogical needs into polished technical solutions, he also has practical experience shipping interactive H5P features used by millions. Based in Reading, UK, Simon is as comfortable consulting with senior stakeholders as he is pair‑coding a new Adapt module.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Ranelagh SchoolBachelor's Degree, Bsc Computer Science (Hons), 2.1, Bachelor's Degree, Bsc Computer Science (Hons), 2.1 at University of Brighton
Github Skills (163)
xapi10
displays10
h5p10
image-viewer10
svg10
fallback10
3d10
javascript10
graphic10
webgl10
scorm10
panorama10
flash10
nodejs10
mongodb10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
KingsOnline/adapt_authoring
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
A server-based user interface for authoring eLearning courses using the Adapt Framework.
Contributions:8 PRs, 38 pushes, 46 branches in 1 year 5 months
user-interfacereactjavascriptexpressauthoring
simondate/adaptfreelancer
Feb 2017 - Apr 2020
My website
Contributions:4 PRs, 339 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years 3 months
react
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