Simon Holmes
Staff Frontend Engineer at Grafana Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Holmes is a staff frontend engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building resilient, high-performance JavaScript and TypeScript applications across finance, consumer brands, and startups. He has led cross-platform component libraries and CI/CD improvements at Chase and architected event-driven payment systems, SDKs, and GraphQL APIs at TrustShare, consistently focusing on testing, performance, and developer experience. Comfortable across React, React Native, Svelte/SvelteKit and exploring SolidJS, he also implements native modules in Swift/Kotlin and builds Node-based backend services. He’s known for bridging design and engineering—integrating Figma-driven design tokens with code—and for creating tooling and test environments that teams reuse company-wide. A mentor and interviewer who champions pairing and clear documentation, Simon blends pragmatic engineering with product sensibility to ship maintainable systems. Based in London, he enjoys experimenting with emerging frontend frameworks in personal projects.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Information Systems Computer Science, BSc Information Systems Computer Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddSt Georges College
Github Skills (133)
webview10
testing10
automation10
bundler10
facebook-login10
nike10
web-frontend10
jsx10
javascript10
chromium10
bun10
firefox10
api10
rust10
high-performance10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
srsholmes/yal-plugins
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
A collection of Yal Plugins
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 19 days
srsholmes/react-boilerplate
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:35 commits, 24 pushes in 6 months
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