Simon Tharby
Back-end Engineer at Go Vocal (formerly CitizenLab)
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Tharby is a back-end engineer with eight years' experience building robust, community-focused platforms using Ruby, Elixir, Rust, Python and JavaScript. Currently at Go Vocal (formerly CitizenLab), he designs and maintains e-democracy systems that enable participatory decision-making and scalable civic engagement. His prior work includes developing an open-source Elixir GraphQL voting API deployed on Kubernetes and integrated with large Rails apps, showing strength in distributed systems, CI/CD and cloud-native deployments. A former teacher, editor and translator, he brings clear communication and product-minded empathy to technical problems and cross-disciplinary teams. Comfortable across databases, APIs and deployment pipelines, he combines pragmatic engineering with a long-standing interest in civic technology and open source.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Dual Diagnosis, Diploma, Dual Diagnosis at Middlesex UniversityRGN (Registered General Nurse), General Nursing, RGN (Registered General Nurse), General Nursing at Newham School of NursingB.Sc. (Hons.), Psychology, B.Sc. (Hons.), Psychology at University of East LondonCELTA (Grade B), Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults, CELTA (Grade B), Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults at International House (London)
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (68)
vote10
democracy10
collective-intelligence10
ruby10
web-development10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript10
html10
nodejs10
css10
todoist9
capistrano9
voting9
shell8
screeps8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jinjagit/Cryptography
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:115 commits, 104 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
liquidvotingio/api
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Enable liquid democracy in your decision making platform
Contributions:96 reviews, 166 commits, 60 PRs in 9 months
decision-makingdecisionliquid-democracyliquidtodoist
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