Simon Turner
Squad Lead at Xelix
Greater Stoke-on-Trent Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Turner is a pragmatic Python backend engineer and squad lead with 11 years of software experience and over 7 years focused on building scalable data pipelines, microservices and reliable endpoints using Django and AWS. He has a strong track record moving and restructuring massive datasets—most notably designing a DynamoDB migration that relocated 8.5 billion meter readings in four weeks—and has scaled ingestion pipelines to support tens of thousands of devices. Comfortable in both startup and larger organisations, he blends hands-on coding, incident leadership and process improvements with cross-functional collaboration across product, design and frontend teams. Based in the Greater Stoke-on-Trent area, he pairs operational experience managing IoT fleets and production servers with mentoring and squad leadership, often pushing for testing and process changes that reduce recurring data issues.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at The University of Sheffield
English
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Github Skills (54)
lucene10
cratedb9
journal9
postgresql9
time-series9
sql9
database9
elasticsearch9
sql-database8
dbms8
iot8
vector-database8
big-data8
analytics8
perl8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nocturnaltortoise/recaptcha-cracker
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:88 commits, 1 comment in 9 months
nocturnaltortoise/nocturnaltortoise.github.io
Jan 2015 - Aug 2022
Personal website.
Contributions:4 PRs, 69 pushes in 7 years 8 months
reactnextjs
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