Summary
Simon Stapleton is a versatile software developer with 14 years of experience spanning finance, web applications and systems programming, now based in the Greater Chambéry area of France. He has deep expertise in Ruby on Rails and relational databases, and a long history of building backend systems in C, C++ and Java for high-performance trading platforms and mission-critical services. Simon’s career blends early work on exchange and banking systems with later web-focused projects—designing CMS, payment and alumni portals—and he often takes responsibility for database and daemon architecture. Comfortable across OO and functional paradigms (Lisp/Scheme, Java, Ruby), he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong technical design and mentoring experience. An unexpected detail: alongside decades of software work he has hands-on operational experience as a conducteur des téléportées, reflecting a practical, safety-conscious approach to complex mechanical systems.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Sawtry Village College
A, Pure Maths, Applied Maths, Physics, A, Pure Maths, Applied Maths, Physics at Huntingdon Technical College
French