Simon Schick
Principal Software Engineer at Vouched
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Schick is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and modernizing web and backend systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Vouched in Kirkland, WA. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Node.js and TypeScript with a strong focus on refactoring, code quality, and migrating legacy constructs to modern ES6 patterns. His career spans roles at Google and Microsoft and startup leadership at Dashworks, reflecting both scale-product and startup delivery experience. An active open-source contributor, Simon has improved widely used projects such as discord.js, sequelize, and the mysql2 driver, often by reducing dependencies, modernizing code, and fixing subtle promise and typing issues. He’s known for pragmatic engineering trade-offs that improve maintainability and error handling, and for a habit of "opening the web inspector"—a pointer to his investigative, detail-oriented approach. Based in the Seattle area, he blends backend craftsmanship with a curiosity for developer ergonomics and tooling.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The Julius Maximilians University of WürzburgAbitur Computer Science Advanced Physics., Abitur Computer Science Advanced Physics. at Schulzentrum Carl von Ossietzky, Gymnasium Oberstrufe
English, German
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Github Skills (30)
sequel10
javascript10
admin10
discord-js10
mysql10
discord10
es6-promise10
databases10
typescript10
database-administration10
modello10
orm10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sequelize/sequelize
Oct 2018 - May 2020
Feature-rich ORM for modern Node.js and TypeScript, it supports PostgreSQL (with JSON and JSONB support), MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle DB (v6), DB2 and DB2 for IBM i.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 79 commits, 141 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on refactoring and modernizing the codebase, replacing outdated constructs (such as lodash and es5 constructs) with their es6 equivalents. These changes involved modifying core model files, indicating a strong understanding of the project's underlying architecture. The user also contributed to various miscellaneous cleanups throughout the repository, with a focus on template usage within the query generation system.
feature-richormsql-servermicrosoft-sql-serversequelize
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Dec 2016 - Jun 2022
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:189 reviews, 151 commits, 136 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Simon fixed a return type issue in the `simulate` callback within the `bell` library. The user also added changes from version 10.10 of Node.js and added fixes and cleanup to the `shot` library. Additionally, the user implemented a new feature related to Node.js 10.11 and a test for `node`.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
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