Simon Tabor
VP Of Engineering at Beamery
Waverley, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Tabor is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building scalable AWS and Node.js-based systems across startups and high-growth media businesses. Currently VP of Engineering at Beamery, he previously led core services and platform teams at DAZN, scaling systems and guiding teams through rapid growth and cost optimisations. As a hands-on technologist and former CTO/co-founder, he combines product-minded engineering with operational rigour—evident in projects that pushed GoSquared’s tracking from tens of thousands to a million requests per minute and in a user identity API built for millions of users. He is an active contributor to notable open-source work such as analytics.js, improving third-party integrations, testing, and documentation. Based in Waverley, UK, he pairs technical depth with a customer-centric background in sales and teaching, which informs his pragmatic approach to hiring, mentoring and roadmap strategy.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
St. Olave's Grammar SchoolCrofton School
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
apim10
javascript10
api10
analytics10
testing9
front-end-development8
amazon-rds6
database-migration6
mysql6
documentation5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
segmentio/analytics.js
Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
The hassle-free way to integrate analytics into any web application.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Simon contributed to the analytics.js library by adding and improving integrations with third-party services like GoSquared. They implemented features such as user identification and event tracking, along with associated unit tests. The user also minified the main javascript file and added small documentation notes to improve the quality and maintainability of the codebase.
integrateanalyticsweb-application
simontabor/2fa
Sep 2014 - Apr 2019
Node.js TOTP + HOTP library, with nice utilities for handing 2FA
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 7 months
hotpnode-jstotpnodejs2fa
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