Simon Knibbs
Senior Software Engineer at Gigaclear
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Knibbs is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building reliable systems in Python, C/C++ and C#, currently shaping network software at Gigaclear. He combines strong test automation and CI skills (Selenium, PyTest, Jenkins), solid Linux and embedded experience, and practical familiarity with frameworks like Qt, SDL and NumPy. Comfortable across web and backend stacks, he’s practiced agile and extreme programming disciplines and champions code quality through tools such as Trac and Reviewboard. Beyond day-to-day engineering he runs a technical blog and maintains projects on GitHub, reflecting an ongoing interest in IoT, smart energy and renewable technologies. Ambitious to architect larger cloud services and pursue chartered engineer status, he brings both systems-level thinking and a curiosity for energy-focused innovation.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Bristol
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (106)
deserialization10
flask-extensions10
openapi10
validation10
dataclasses10
serialization10
endpoint10
wake10
api9
phrase9
json-schema9
python9
swagger9
flask9
rest-api9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
s-knibbs/s-knibbs.github.io
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:57 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 month
blog-site
s-knibbs/dataclasses-jsonschema
Jun 2018 - Oct 2022
JSON schema generation from dataclasses
Contributions:42 releases, 2 reviews, 95 commits in 4 years 5 months
pythonvalidationdeserializationdataclassesjsonschema
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