Simon Hughes
Director at Reverse POCO
Newport, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
SeniorSimon Hughes is a seasoned technology director and architect with three decades of commercial software development experience and a speciality in scalable, high-performance systems. He has led and shipped large enterprise and IoT solutions—most notably a wireless warehouse system deployed across 120+ sites and a paperless Thinventory platform that became core to ByBox—while driving dramatic performance improvements such as an 8000% DB write speedup at Gluwa. An AWS-certified cloud practitioner, published Pluralsight/Packt author and creator of the popular EntityFramework Reverse POCO Generator, he blends deep C/C#/C++ and SQL Server expertise with hands-on open-source tooling for developer productivity. Comfortable from embedded and multi-threaded C++ to .NET Core, OCPP and cloud-native architectures, he pairs technical leadership with teaching and mentoring experience. Based in Newport, UK, he thrives on turning complex domain problems—quantitative risk analysis, real-time sorting, and EV charging back-office systems—into reliable, maintainable products.
13 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
3,554reputation
930kreached
89answers
7questions
Github Skills (13)
databases10
entity-framework10
code-generation10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
database10
reverse-engineering9
sql9
visual-studio8
sql-server6
stored-procedures6
svn6
tsql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sjh37/EntityFramework-Reverse-POCO-Code-First-Generator
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
EntityFramework Reverse POCO Code First Generator - Beautifully generated code that is fully customisable. This generator creates code as if you reverse engineered a database and lovingly created the code by hand. It is free to academics (you need a .edu or a .ac email address), not free for commercial use. Obtain your licence from
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:57 releases, 5 reviews, 24 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Simon contributed to the Entity Framework Reverse POCO Code First Generator, enhancing its functionality and compatibility. Their work involved implementing optional parameters for stored procedures, improving database interaction logic. Further, they added support for file-based EF6 templates. The user's commits demonstrate a strong understanding of database interactions and code generation for Entity Framework.
code-generationpocoemail-addressacademicsentity-framework
sjh37/Effortless-.Net-Encryption
Aug 2012 - Dec 2021
Contributions:9 releases, 68 commits, 29 pushes in 9 years 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.