Simon Skates
Senior Software Engineer at Vestmark
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Skates is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack web systems, primarily using Ruby on Rails, Ember.js/React, and Python. He has a strong track record of shipping production ML services (Docker, FastAPI, Keras), 3D visualization tooling, and feature management systems while balancing legacy code and modern frameworks. His background in industrial engineering informs pragmatic solutions for optimization, scheduling, and complex integrations across inventory, shipping, and reporting systems. At OneDoor he combined machine learning, UX work (retrofitting tablet-to-phone, pinch-to-zoom), and spatial problems like 2D-to-3D mapping and collision detection to drive measurable product improvements. A pragmatic mentor and communicator, he’s given internal talks on image recognition, query optimization, and GraphQL adoption and has experience building high-throughput Go tooling for real-time monitoring. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings a blend of systems thinking and hands-on implementation shaped by a Georgia Tech engineering education.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
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Github Skills (19)
incident-management9
management8
rails8
ruby8
ember-addon7
open-source7
addon7
ruby-on-rails7
speech-recognition6
media6
android6
android-activity6
amazon-rds6
ios6
filesystem6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sskates1/zoom-zone
Mar 2017 - Jul 2020
An ember addon for presenting pannable, zoomable viewports.
Contributions:8 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 4 months
ember-addonemberaddonpresentingviewports
sskates1/sinatraCamera
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
Sinatra webapp designed to use https://github.com/rlamarche/camera-toolbox
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
sinatraclient-sidetoolboxcameraruby
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