Simon Dwyer
Software Engineer at PERSUIT®
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Dwyer is a Melbourne-based full-stack software engineer with nine years of professional experience building web applications across startups and product teams. Currently at PERSUIT®, he previously contributed to marketplace and blockchain-adjacent platforms at Marketplacer and Disco Labs, bringing a pragmatic approach to scalable, maintainable systems. He combines rigorous scientific training—a PhD in Plant Sciences from ANU—with a formal IT diploma from Coder Academy, enabling clear analytical thinking alongside modern development practices. Simon’s background as a postdoc and long-serving cycling club coach highlights strengths in mentoring, program design, and translating complex problems into teachable steps. He’s known for preferring elegant, well-structured solutions and for bridging research-grade attention to detail with product-focused delivery. Outside work he channels leadership and community-building skills learned coaching into collaborative engineering culture.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityDiploma Information Technology, Diploma Information Technology at Coder AcademyBachelor of Science - BS Botany/Plant Biology and Psychology, Bachelor of Science - BS Botany/Plant Biology and Psychology at Monash University
Github Skills (14)
coder4
marketplace3
rails3
ruby-on-rails3
ruby2
api2
rails-api2
javascript1
javascript-client1
browser1
client-library1
authentication1
jwt-authentication1
jwt1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
piratechicken/portfolio-website
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:24 PRs, 57 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
reactnextjstailwindcsssimon
piratechicken/eucalyptus
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 9 days
ruby-on-railsmarketplaceindigenousrailsplants
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