Simon Hampton
Freelance Software Engineer at Technology Policy Advocates
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolSimon Hampton is a freelance software engineer specialising in functional full-stack web development, currently building Elm front-ends for a San Francisco startup while running his own consultancy in Brussels. He brings 12 years of hands-on engineering experience layered on top of two decades of technology policy leadership across Google, Uber, Time Warner, AOL and the European Commission. That unusual blend means he moves fluently between product code, developer ecosystems and high-level policy strategy, helping translate regulatory needs into practical technical solutions. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Elm's core JSON decoding docs to make functional patterns more accessible to developers. He holds a first-class BSc in Mathematics from Bristol, an MPhil in Economics from Oxford and a postgraduate diploma in Competition Law, and recently completed a computer-science sabbatical that sharpened his engineering practice. Based in Brussels, he leverages deep domain knowledge of EU policy and comms infrastructure to connect startups, policymakers and engineering teams.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MPhil, MPhil at University of OxfordDiploma, Diploma at King's College LondonBSc, BSc at University of Bristol
English, French, Dutch, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
json10
elm10
documentation10
javascript9
css9
wordpress9
sqlite9
angularjs9
nodejs9
html9
angular6
haskell6
functional-programming6
php6
typescript6
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
elm/core
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Elm's core libraries
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 commits, 12 PRs, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on correcting and improving the documentation within the `elm/core` repository. Their commits consistently addressed syntax errors, clarified explanations of existing code, and provided examples to improve understanding. The changes were centered around the `Json.Decode.elm` file, with a focus on enhancing the clarity and accuracy of documentation related to JSON decoding.
elmdictionaryarrayjson
simonh1000/angular-http-server
Jul 2015 - Sep 2022
Simple http-server for Single Page Apps (SPAs)
Contributions:10 reviews, 72 commits, 33 PRs in 7 years 3 months
simplehttpserver
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