Simon Starr
Senior Engineering Manager at FreeAgent
Bath, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Starr is a seasoned engineering leader based in Bath, England, with 17 years of experience delivering customer-facing SaaS integrations and add-ons at FreeAgent after three decades in tech. As Senior Engineering Manager he leads the Connections & Add‑ons team, shipping integrations with NatWest/RBS, Hiscox, Amazon Selling Partner and a paid accountant-matching product, balancing product partnerships with strong delivery discipline. He started as a hands-on Rails developer and CTO/co-founder of startups, so he blends architectural judgement and people management with a willingness to roll up his sleeves. Outside product work he’s organised large community events (Bath Ruby Conference) and run small businesses and consultancies, demonstrating an unusual mix of operational, technical and community-building experience.
16 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
West Buckland School, co-ed day and boarding school for 3-18 year olds in North DevonNDITA, NDITA at North Devon College
English
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Github Skills (73)
cloudinary10
cloudinary-sdk10
hubot9
slack-bot9
coffeescript8
image-manipulation8
relation7
ruby-on-rails7
width7
slack7
discovery7
google-maps6
ruby6
testing6
devise6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sstarr/guild-dashboard
Jun 2014 - Apr 2022
A simple dashboard to display on screens at The Guild in Bath
Contributions:27 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 7 years 11 months
bathdashboardguildthe-guildvuejs
bathruby/bathruby-2015
Dec 2014 - Oct 2017
Contributions:51 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 10 months
ruby-on-railsbathclaprailsruby
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