Simon Tower
Lead Backend Engineer at Chorus
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSimon Tower is a Lead Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating high-throughput, distributed systems for startups and enterprise customers in the San Francisco Bay Area. He combines deep Go, Java, and Python expertise with hands-on DevOps, API and system design—having led petabyte data migrations, Kafka-based microservices, and complex Stripe customer migrations. Known for translating between engineering, product, and client-facing teams, he leverages sales engineering and public-speaking experience to simplify technical trade-offs and drive cross-functional alignment. Comfortable in small agile teams, Simon champions pragmatic automation, AI-assisted code generation, and maintainable architectures that scale. He also has a track record of mentoring engineers and documenting complex domains like CMS and healthcare contracting, which helps teams move from ambiguity to production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BoS, Computer Science, BoS, Computer Science at College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Western Michigan UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computational Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computational Science at Western Michigan University
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
PLOS/ambra
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:7 PRs, 6 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 4 months
djangojournaljournal-managementpublishing
PLOS/ambraproject
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
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