Simon Yamada
Freelance Web Engineer Developer
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSimon Yamada is a seasoned full-stack web engineer with 13 years of experience building production-grade web and backend systems from startup proof-of-concepts to scalable consumer services. Based in Vancouver, he blends deep Ruby on Rails expertise with modern front-end stacks (Next.js, TypeScript, React Native) and cloud/datastore work (Postgres, MySQL, AWS, Azure OpenAI). His recent freelance work spans metaverse backend design, navigation recommendation engines, PKI contributions, and generative-AI prompt engineering—demonstrating an ability to move between infrastructure, data integration, and applied ML features. Simon has led engineering teams as a CTO and senior engineer, mentored junior developers, and repeatedly shipped end-to-end products single-handedly, showing both technical depth and product instincts. An analytical thinker with a formal computing background from The University of Aizu, he often pairs pragmatic engineering with creative problem solving across languages like Go and Python.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Completed coursework, withdrew before thesis, Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Completed coursework, withdrew before thesis, Mathematical and Computing Sciences at Tokyo Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of Aizu
Japanese, English
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Github Skills (51)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
microsoft-edge9
expressjs9
keystore9
safari9
javascript9
router9
vue9
dom9
google-chrome9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
monmonmon/jquery.narrows
May 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:65 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 4 months
javascriptjquery
monmonmon/dotfiles
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:68 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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