Simon Kaczor
Founder at Prognosoft Inc.
New Castle, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Kaczor is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building industrial software for logistics, e-commerce, and inventory management from New Castle, Virginia. He has led product engineering at Prognosoft and previously drove BI and risk-management software for Meridium used by Fortune 500 firms, blending domain expertise with practical delivery. His background in computational fluid dynamics and mechanical engineering informs a rigorous, analytical approach to complex systems, evident since early research at Bombardier and Polytechnique Montréal. As a freelancer he also develops SketchUp extensions and contributes to open-source EDI tooling—having added X12 transaction support and resolved Rails conflicts in a notable Ruby EDI project. He pairs entrepreneurial pragmatism with hands-on backend skills, preferring durable, auditable solutions for industrial workflows. Outside work he’s a private pilot, a detail that reflects a penchant for disciplined systems thinking and precision.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Master, Computational Fluid Dynamics at Polytechnique Montréal
French, Polish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
parserator10
parser10
x1210
ruby10
grammars9
grammar9
ide6
editor6
pointer6
database6
ruby-on-rails6
testing4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kputnam/stupidedi
Oct 2012 - Mar 2013
Ruby API for parsing and generating ASC X12 EDI transactions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the `stupidedi` Ruby API by adding and updating X12 EDI transaction definitions, specifically for the SM204 and QM214 transactions. Their work involved creating new element definitions, updating existing segment definitions, and adjusting the guide documents to reflect these changes. They also addressed conflicts with Rails methods by renaming them.
apivalidationgrammarrubyparsing
dropstream/express-gateway-plugin-encrypted-path
Feb 2020 - Sep 2024
Plugin used to decrypt an API Endpoint path
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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