Simon Winter
Principal Frontend Developer at Octave
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolSimon Winter is a Principal Frontend Developer based in Wellington with 11 years of experience building polished user experiences and leading engineering teams. He blends hands-on front-end craft—React, Next.js, TypeScript—with practical full-stack and DevOps skills including Docker and AWS to deliver production-grade systems. As a technical leader he has managed and mentored multidisciplinary teams, scoped complex projects, and improved CI/CD and delivery practices across agencies and science-focused organisations. His background spans agency work for major clients to enabling data-driven research platforms, giving him a rare mix of product-facing UX sensitivity and rigour for scientific tooling. Simon’s career shows a steady progression from designer/developer to Technical Director and Principal, and he often bridges design, engineering and operations rather than sitting strictly in one camp. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and is known for making complex technical constraints feel like part of the product rather than an obstacle.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of CanterburyDiploma, Multimedia, Diploma, Multimedia at Natcoll
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Github Skills (121)
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silverstripe8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
salted-herring/silverstripe-shortlist
Apr 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 7 PRs in 9 months
silverstripephpshortlist
salted-herring/saltedherring-vue
Apr 2019 - May 2020
Vue front end for Saltedherring.com
Contributions:1 PR, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
javascriptvuejs2vuefront-endvuejs
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