Summary
Simon Estill is a pragmatic full-stack software developer with 11 years of experience building public-facing and civic web applications for UK metropolitan councils. He bridges Microsoft stacks (.NET, SQL Server, Web Forms, MVC) and modern open-source toolchains (Clojure/ClojureScript, Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch) to deliver CMS-driven sites and data-backed social care systems. Comfortable in Agile teams, he practices TDD, pair programming and continuous delivery with Docker and AWS, and has hands-on experience integrating Contentful and Selenium for robust content and QA workflows. A physicist by training (PhD in solid state electronics), he brings strong analytical and numeric skills to complex data modeling and search challenges, and has open-source project work available via the smbc-digital GitHub organization.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
physics, Physics, IIi, physics, Physics, IIi at The University of Manchester
msc, Electronics, msc, Electronics at UMIST