Simon Reilly
Backend Engineer at Monzo Bank
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Reilly is a backend engineer with eight years of experience building reliable, scalable APIs and user-facing services across fintech and cloud-native environments. Having progressed from chemical engineering to leading technical teams, he combines analytical rigor with a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to delivery. He has driven international product launches and platform improvements at Banked, led serverless and AWS migrations as a consultant, and now works at Monzo focusing on backend systems. Simon values collaboration, mentorship and sustainable practices, regularly promoting engineers into leadership and fostering a culture of measurement and transparency. An open-source-minded fullstack developer, he brings hands-on experience across Python, TypeScript, Ruby and infrastructure-as-code tooling. Based in Leeds, he pairs product-focused engineering with a background in applied research, evidenced by early academic work on fluid rheology.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Chemical Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Chemical Engineering at The University of EdinburghMontrose Academy
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
e2e10
serverless10
graphql-api10
browser10
react-testing-library10
api10
trigger10
dynamodb10
sst10
mongodb10
svelte-testing-library10
webhooks10
aws-lambda-edge10
subgraph10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
simonireilly/aenea
Jul 2018 - Oct 2020
Client-server library for using voice macros from Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragonfly on remote/non-windows hosts.
Contributions:20 PRs, 47 pushes, 27 branches in 2 years 3 months
dragonmacroswindowsdragonflyclient-server
simonireilly/observatory-github-action
Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
Run https://observatory.mozilla.org/ against pull requests and preview URLs
Contributions:14 releases, 94 commits, 132 PRs in 1 year 9 months
urlsmozilla-observatoryobservatoryrelease-managementpull-requests
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