Simon H is a Programmer Analyst based in Ottawa with nearly a decade of hands-on experience delivering data-driven applications, BI solutions, and database systems across finance, HR, retail, logistics, telecom and aviation sectors. He specializes in the Microsoft data stack—.NET, C#, VB, SQL Server, SSIS/SSAS/SSRS and MDX—while also leveraging JavaScript, AJAX and ESRI ArcGIS to bridge backend analytics with geospatial and web front ends. Known for proposing time- and cost-effective solutions, he combines practical software development with project management and professional services to solve complex integration and reporting challenges. Simon contributes to open-source projects, notably enhancing clipboard support in the cross-platform libGDX framework’s GWT backend and improving HTML-to-Markdown conversion logic, showing a knack for pragmatic cross-platform and parser work. His background spans both large institutional environments like the University of Ottawa and collaborative OSS maintenance, reflecting comfort with production systems and community-driven code. He brings a detail-oriented, measurable approach to delivering reliable, auditable systems that align closely with business goals.
Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:74 reviews, 80 commits, 119 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on implementing clipboard functionality within the GWT backend of the libGDX game development framework. They added support for setting and getting clipboard contents, handling permissions, and integrating with the GWT environment. The contributions also involved changes to the test suite to include the new clipboard features, as well as modifications to other areas of the testing and backends, and finally merging branches. This work improved the cross-platform capabilities of the framework, enabling developers to use clipboard features within GWT applications.
Contributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 14 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the project by modifying the HTML to Markdown conversion logic, enhancing the output of the converter. Their work included adding support for ordered list attributes, adjusting how badges are displayed in the README, and fixing parsing issues. The user also addressed merging conflicts, indicating involvement in project maintenance and integrating changes from different branches.
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Simon H - Programmer Analyst at University of Ottawa