Simon Willan
Director Of Engineering at Netcoins
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Willan is a Director of Engineering with 16 years in web and application development and 11 years specializing in PHP, currently leading engineering at Netcoins in Vancouver. He has a track record of building enterprise-scale, revenue-driving platforms—most notably architecting a self-serve cryptocurrency platform and automated Interac e-Transfer flows that brought retail parity with top Canadian exchanges. Simon blends hands-on coding (Laravel, PHP, TypeScript, Vue) with technical leadership, having influenced product direction as a founding developer and introduced Agile practices that improved delivery and quality. A fast learner and mentor, he pairs a keen eye for elegant code with practical operational tooling like Docker, Ansible, and CI-friendly front-end builds. Notably, his career spans both product-first startups and client-facing development, giving him a pragmatic balance of architecture, execution, and user-focused thinking.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
St Gregory's Catholic SchoolBennett Memorial Diocesan School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (132)
python10
trading10
trading-bot10
cryptocurrency10
crypto10
javascript10
merchant10
cryptocurrencies10
bundle10
laravel10
exchange10
api10
bitcoin10
binance10
php10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
netcoins/netcoins-sdk-php
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
Netcoins SDK - API access
Contributions:2 releases, 37 commits, 6 PRs in 5 months
apiapi-accessapi-sdkblockchainsdk
devsi/ccxt
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
A JavaScript / Python / PHP cryptocurrency trading API with support for more than 130 bitcoin/altcoin exchanges
Contributions:38 pushes, 9 branches in 3 months
exchangepythonexchangescryptocurrency-tradingaltcoin
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