Simon King
System Software Developer at Alliance Homes Group
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon King is a seasoned system software developer and IT manager with 11+ years of experience building and operating business-critical services across higher education and housing sectors. He combines hands-on development skills in SQL Server, ETL, Java and Microsoft Azure with a proven track record of leading teams through waterfall and agile delivery, service management to SLAs, and continual service improvement. At the University of Bristol he moved a 15-person team to modern toolchains—Git, Jenkins, Jira—and later led the implementation of a customer self-service portal at Alliance Homes Group. Known for leading by example, he blends technical depth with people leadership to enable innovation while maintaining standards. Outside work he builds personal software projects in Glasgow and has a fondness for cats, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity that drives practical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Metallurgy, Upper Second, BSc Metallurgy, Upper Second at The University of ManchesterWallington High School for BoysMSc Information Technology (Management Information Systems), Information Technology, MSc Information Technology (Management Information Systems), Information Technology at Cranfield Univeristy
Github Skills (17)
qr-code5
colours5
robot5
controller4
spring-boot4
hotspot4
spring3
sse3
rgb3
wifi3
web-application3
interpreter2
angular2
spring-web2
jenkins-plugin1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ksimes/SSEHydroModel
Dec 2018 - Mar 2023
SSE Hydro - Spring Web application to control RGB LEDs with a WiFi hotspot and a UI to allow you to change the display colours on a model of the Glasgow SSE Hydro building.
Contributions:12 PRs, 14 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 4 months
angular5web-applicationws2812bqr-codeelectronics
ksimes/trainControl
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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