Simon Proctor
Senior Software Engineer at Situation Publishing
Bonnybridge, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Proctor is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of professional experience building pragmatic, usable web applications that balance modern techniques like AJAX with compatibility for older systems and users with reduced capabilities. He has progressed through senior and lead roles at companies including PhotoBox, ZPG Plc and Situation Publishing, blending front-end JavaScript, HTML/CSS and back-end work in Perl/PHP/Ruby to deliver cohesive full-stack solutions. An early adopter of asynchronous web apps—having built what he calls an AJAX-style app as early as 2004—he stresses correct, maintainable implementations over flashy but brittle ones. Outside commercial projects he contributes to language-diverse open-source challenges, notably solving algorithmic problems in Raku for the Weekly Challenge knowledge base. Based in Bonnybridge, Scotland, he combines steady hands-on engineering with a curiosity for niche languages and periodic deep-dives into new tech.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
computer Studies, computer Studies at The University of EdinburghNewport Free Grammar School, Newport, Essex
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Github Skills (14)
raku10
strings9
text-manipulation9
algorithms9
data-structure7
data-structures7
reduce6
hash6
attribute6
physics6
regex6
meta6
rakudo6
operator6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
manwar/perlweeklychallenge-club
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
Knowledge base for The Weekly Challenge club members using Perl, Raku, Ada, APL, Awk, Bash, BASIC, Bc, Befunge-93, Bourne Shell, BQN, Brainfuck, C3, C, CESIL, C++, C#, Clojure, COBOL, Coconut, Crystal, D, Dart, Dc, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Excel VBA, Fennel, Fish, Forth, Fortran, Gembase, GNAT, Go, Haskell, Haxe, HTML, Idris, IO, J, Janet, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lisp, Lua, M4, Miranda, Modula 3, MMIX, Mumps, Myrddin, Nim, Nix, Node.js, Nuweb, OCaml, Odin, Ook, Pascal, PHP, Python, Postscript, Prolog, R, Ring, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, Sed, Smalltalk, SQL, Swift, Tcl, TypeScript, Visual BASIC, WebAssembly, Wolfram, XSLT and Zig.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:97 commits, 189 PRs, 11 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to solutions for The Weekly Challenge using the Raku programming language. The commits involve implementing solutions to programming challenges from the weekly challenge, focusing on algorithms, string manipulation, and data structures. The user's contributions involved the implementation of solutions in Raku.
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Scimon/perlweeklychallenge-club
Jul 2019 - Feb 2024
Knowledge base for Perl Weekly Challenge Club members.
Contributions:356 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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