Simon Large
Owner at Skirrid Systems
Abergavenny, Wales, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Large is an experienced embedded systems and web solutions engineer with over 21 years delivering electronics, firmware and website design for churches, charities and small businesses through his company Skirrid Systems. His background spans real-time embedded software, hardware design and turnkey manufacturing integrations from work at Lucid Lighting, M4 Electronics and several thermal-printer and medical-device projects, giving him deep end-to-end product expertise. Based in Abergavenny, Wales, he combines hands-on circuit and firmware development with practical web and tech-support services, a rare blend that helps non-profits and small organisations deploy reliable, maintainable systems. Clients benefit from his knack for translating constrained hardware requirements into robust commercial products and simple, usable web presences. He continues to offer both embedded design and compassionate, community-focused tech support, reflecting an engineer who values product longevity and real-world impact.
21 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Natural Sciences, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Natural Sciences at University of Cambridge, St John's CollegeWestfield Comprehensive School, YeovilYeovil College
English, Welsh
Github Skills (34)
dfu10
chips10
static-analysis9
bootloader9
altitude9
usb9
wordpress9
wordpress-plugin9
elevation9
cpp9
cppcheck9
gpx8
cross-platform8
code-analysis8
firmware8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
skirridsystems/packbits
Nov 2021 - May 2023
Simple run-length encoding and decoding
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 6 months
skirridsystems/es-printf
Feb 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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