Simon Reed
Freelance Senior Ruby Developer at Simon Reed Development Limited
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Reed is a freelance Senior Ruby developer based in England with over 15 years in software engineering and 11 years of focused professional experience building Rails-backed web applications and React front-ends. He helps businesses increase revenue and efficiency through rapid prototyping, pragmatic refactors, and reliable short-term engagements without long-term contracting constraints. Experienced across startups and agencies, he’s shipped products from bootstrap ventures (Nicetripper, Seedcamp alum) to large client platforms and in-house physical-product startups. Notable strengths include simplifying large legacy codebases into maintainable Rails apps, building multi-tenant white-label infrastructure, and mentoring junior engineers. He prefers being a dependable, flexible resource who won’t leave clients stranded and often pairs backend Rails expertise with pragmatic front-end React work. Educated in software engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University, he combines entrepreneurial grit with production-first engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University
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Github Skills (13)
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agile-development10
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buildpack9
editor9
heroku9
docker8
dokku7
devops7
kubernetes6
paas6
nomad3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
simonreed/rocktumbler
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
simonreed/lolz
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 months
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