Simon Litchfield
Advisor And Fractional CTO at Safesite
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Litchfield is a seasoned tech leader, software engineer and designer with 25+ years of experience and 15 years in senior leadership roles, now advising startups and serving as a fractional CTO from Sydney. He specialises in fintech, payments and data systems—architecting scalable platforms, building engineering teams and guiding product innovation from proof-of-concept to market. Simon brings hands-on back-end expertise (notably integrating payment gateways into Django apps) alongside strategic work for investors on technical due diligence and audits. His track record includes founding and scaling multiple ventures, driving growth and exits, and leading engineering at fast-moving startups and product studios. An active community builder, he launched the Sydney Vue.js meetup that grew to over a thousand members, reflecting his commitment to developer ecosystems. Practical, curious and design-minded, he thrives on simplifying complex systems and turning technical risk into business advantage.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Multimedia, Bachelor of Multimedia at Griffith University
English
Github Skills (10)
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
api10
python10
apidoc10
django10
modeling9
modello9
forms9
modeler9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
agiliq/merchant
Jun 2013 - Sep 2013
A Django app to accept payments from various payment processors via Pluggable backends.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to adding and integrating the Pin Payments gateway into the Django-based merchant application. Their work involved implementing the necessary logic for processing payments, including purchase, authorize, capture, and credit operations. They also developed associated models, forms, and tests for Pin Payments, indicating a focus on payment processing back-end development within the Django framework. The user integrated tests as well as worked on the UI.
paymentspythonprocessorsdjangoaccept-payments
litchfield/django-liststyle
Oct 2010 - Aug 2017
Style your django admin changelist rows with ease!
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 years 10 months
pythonadmindjangodjango-adminrows
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