Simon Skinner
IT Director at afx.com
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSimon Skinner is an IT Director with over two decades in technology and more than a decade focused in senior IT leadership within financial services, driving secure, high-performance trading and fund-management platforms. He combines hands-on engineering—building bespoke CRM, telephony and survey systems—with strategic oversight of infrastructure, MetaTrader platforms and liquidity integrations to keep mission-critical operations resilient. Simon has founded and scaled multiple businesses and contact-centre operations, growing teams from tens to hundreds and merging companies to broaden service offerings. His background spans full-stack web development, VoIP/PBX and custom cloud diallers, giving him a rare operational fluency across software, networks and telecoms. Practical and process-driven, he has repeatedly cut costs and boosted productivity through automation and monitoring while navigating regulated environments and audits. Based in London and fluent in Spanish and French, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a knack for turning complex financial workflows into reliable, user-focused systems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Modern Languages Spanish and French, Modern Languages Spanish and French at The Open UniversityHND Software Engineering, HND Software Engineering at Blackpool and the Fylde CollegeSt Mary's RC High School and 6th form Blackpool
English, French, German, Hungarian
Stackoverflow
53reputation
1kreached
0answers
2questions
Github Skills (50)
jetbrains10
dev-environment10
ide10
provisioning10
code-review10
remote-development10
devcontainer10
disposable10
theia10
editor9
pg-promise9
gitpod9
pusher9
vscode9
typescript8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tech3k/partner-link
Jul 2017 - Jan 2024
NPM package to allow referral of cases over to the Partner Link API
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 35 pushes in 6 years 7 months
apicasesnpm-packagejavascriptreferral
vultuk/porter-server
May 2017 - Dec 2024
Porter intends to be a package enabling microservices and APIs to be created and put online with the very minimum of effort.
Contributions:38 PRs, 60 pushes, 45 branches in 7 years 7 months
porterapimicro-frameworkeffortexpressjs
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.