Simon Dawson
Senior Software Engineer at B4B Payments
Lichfield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Dawson is a Senior Software Engineer with 14+ years of full-stack experience, specializing in Ruby on Rails, Hotwire/Turbo, and relational databases. He combines hands-on development of web and security tooling—recently contributing integration tests and output-sanitization fixes to the Bearer SAST project—with deep systems knowledge from embedded Linux, kernel work, and C/C++ development. A proven mentor and technical lead, he has driven architecture, quality practices and DevOps across fintech, SaaS, and cyber-security teams. Comfortable across AWS, PostgreSQL/MySQL, and classical UNIX toolchains, he focuses on shipping secure, maintainable systems through the full development lifecycle. Unusually for a web engineer, his background includes kernel/driver programming and embedded product design, enabling pragmatic solutions where hardware and cloud intersect. Based in Lichfield, England, he pairs rigorous academic training in physics and mathematics with a pragmatic, security-minded engineering approach.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys, Theoretical Physics, First-class honours, MPhys, Theoretical Physics, First-class honours at University of York
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Github Skills (22)
package-management10
embedded-linux10
build-system10
software-quality10
go10
vulnerability9
testing9
static-code-analysis9
c119
makefile9
c179
security-scan8
automated-build8
bash8
security8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Bearer/bearer
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Code security scanning tool (SAST) to discover, filter and prioritize security and privacy risks.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 51 commits, 24 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed to the code security scanning tool by addressing multiple bug fixes and code improvements. Their work included correcting typos in output messages, omitting empty commit SHAs from detection output, and correctly handling scan target prefixes. They also removed object and field UUIDs from the output and added the initial integration tests, indicating their work was focused on refining the tool's functionality and output.
protectbugbountycode-qualitysastcompliance
spdawson/lcdapi
Oct 2012 - Jun 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 4 years 9 months
apic-apicppclients
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