Simon Swartzman
Staff Software Engineer at ActiveCampaign
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Swartzman is a Staff Software Engineer in Chicago with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and leading engineering work at ActiveCampaign. He combines a liberal arts background from Yale and rigorous full-stack training from Dev Bootcamp with hands-on healthcare and community outreach experience, giving him a rare blend of technical depth and user-centered empathy. Known for picking up new languages and domains quickly, he focuses equally on clean system design and clear team communication, mentoring colleagues and documenting shared learnings. His career path—from patient advocacy and ER support to shipping production software—helps him translate complex user needs into practical, reliable features. Outside of work he publishes projects on GitHub and values asking "why" as a route to better design decisions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Full-Stack Web Development, Full-Stack Web Development at Dev BootcampBachelor's degree, Literature, 3.89, Bachelor's degree, Literature, 3.89 at Yale University
Github Skills (64)
prefix9
tesseract9
adapter9
php9
lumen9
elasticsearch9
webassembly8
ocr8
indexing8
javascript8
caching8
eloquent8
shim8
webrtc7
spec7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rtzm/rtzm.github.io
Jan 2017 - Dec 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 44 pushes, 9 branches in 8 years
rtzm/TrackcmpSmokeTest
Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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