Simon Hearne
Founding Solutions Architect, EMEA at Zilliz
Mole Valley, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Hearne is a founding solutions architect and performance-driven technologist with 17 years’ experience helping organisations boost web and mobile UX through small, high-impact engineering changes. He combines hands-on engineering, consultancy and leadership—founding Loxima, co-running one of the UK’s largest web performance meetups, and supporting enterprise customers at Akamai and Elastic—to translate performance metrics into measurable business outcomes. Currently focused on VectorDB, AI and RAG use cases at Zilliz while also leading solutions architecture at Elastic EMEA, he bridges modern web performance, CDN and AI-driven search stacks. Simon favours pragmatic, actionable recommendations (often just a few lines of code or CDN config) that materially improve LCP and CLS and therefore conversion and SEO. An MSc in Web Science underpins his blend of research-led methods and practical delivery, and outside work he measures performance on his bike as meticulously as he does on the web.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Web Science, Master of Science, Web Science at University of SouthamptonTrinity School Croydon
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
jquery10
api10
coercion10
rails-api10
jquery-ui10
webpack10
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javascript9
hapi9
rest9
ava9
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phantomjs9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
atomless/emojiocracy
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
atomless/a-microformats-theme-for-tumblr
Dec 2008 - Dec 2008
Contributions:12 commits in 3 days
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