Summary
Simon Staton is a senior product engineer and principal-level technologist with 11 years of experience crafting high-performance front-end and full-stack systems, now focused on product engineering at Fanvue. He has led global search and AI-driven relaunches at HubSpot, shipped an AI text/image-to-3D model creator at Improbable, and scaled frontend teams and practices from small to 20+ engineers at BYND. Comfortable from low-level JavaScript libraries to modern React stacks, he blends architecture, hands-on coding, and mentorship to drive continuous delivery and measurable product impact. Based in St Albans, he is a JavaScript evangelist who quietly combines startup agility with enterprise-grade governance, often surfacing improvements in testing, accessibility and deployment that reduce lead times to hours.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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