Dr. Simon Pears
Durham, DL15 0XJ, United Kingdom |-Click Here To Visit My GitLab Portfolio
Full-Stack Developer • Front-End Web Developer • Back-End Developer
PROFILE
Python developer with over five years experience and a Ph.D in Distributed Computing, continually upgrading skills,
including: Python3, FastAPI, AIOHTTP, Pytest, Behave, Google Cloud Platform, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes,
Strawberry , Github Actions and GitLab CI. Logical, with a proven track record for requirements analysis and systems
development within a wide range of business domains. Highly capable and precise, with the ability to design and
develop an idea for a variety of complex problems, from initial concept through to final completed product.
Contributed to streamlining Newcastle Building Society’s prepaid card reconciliation process into a service-oriented
architecture that managed accounting for 1.5+ million cards, issued within six European countries.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Analysis and Design • Database Design/Development • Rest API/GraphQL/Web Development • Unit, Integration and
End-To-End Testing • Object-Oriented Technology • Kubernetes • Docker • GitLab CI • GitHub Actions • Mentoring
WORK EXPERIENCE
Geniei - Remote Python Backend Developer (Contract)
October 2022 – Present
Mid-level Python, Strawberry GraphQL developer responsible for backend API implementation to retrieve,
filter and sort trades for customer BitCoin investment portfolios. Furthermore, I designed and implemented a
test-suite to assess the suitability of integrating new ccxtpro exchanges during company growth.
WayhomeUK – Remote Python Backend Developer
October 2021 – October 2022
Python FASTPI/AIOHTTP RestAPI mid-level developer, responsible for designing, developing and testing customer
facing products, PostgreSQL databases and GCloud infrastructure for the company to grow from startup. This
included: removing technical debt, mentoring, QA, and sprint planning. I contributed to refactoring property
searches, integrating a new Rest API to create and maintain property search filters. To increase the rate of
customers receiving property offers, I refactored legacy service dependencies for internal credit decisioning.
Self - Full-Stack Developer
Sept. 2016 – October 2021
Independently researched cutting edge technologies to expand my skills and develop an Angular web
application for education institutions to manage courses and assessments. I implemented a Python Pyramid
RestAPI with a Gitlab CI pipeline for deployment into an Azure Kubernetes cluster. Other projects include:
● Enhanced Shinobi Tensorflow plugin to despatch webcam object detections to MQTT Mosquitto.
Implemented a Gitlab CI pipeline to build, test and deploy NPM package to private Bytesafe registry.
● Ruby Gem for validating Gitlab CI pipeline files.
● NestJS repository with React/Redux UI, tested with React-Testing, Enzyme and Cypress frameworks.
Durham College - Further (FE) and Higher Education (HE) Computing Teacher
2010 – 2016
Prepared and delivered content for Further Education Foundation Degree Computing modules to a cohort of
100+ learners. I acquired Institute For Learning (IFL) membership and was awarded a teaching observation of
borderline grade 1 from an external QA organisation.
Senior Analyst / ASP.NET Developer - Business and Decision
2009 – 2010
Maintained, developed, tested and released change requests for the Mi-Case UK C#/ASP.NET website. During
this period the company was awarded a $12.5m contract for delivery into United States, Maryland.
● Timely help desk support for 30+ clients, with occasional travel for requirements analysis.
● Writing concise technical, release and user documents for change requests and new features.
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Senior Analyst / Microsoft .NET Developer - Newcastle Building Society-
Worked as part of a multi-disciplinary team to analyse, design, develop and test WCF service oriented
architectures for prepaid card and mortgage applications with WinForm/ASP.NET front ends. This enabled
fraud detection and bank reconciliation of 1.5+ million cards issued by the company.
● Actively participated in frequent meetings to report on sprint progress and brainstorm ideas.
● Designed and maintained SQL Server databases for prepaid card and mortgage applications.
● Devised a standard XML data feed for incoming card transactions, adopted by card providers.
● Liaised with financial staff at all levels to document requirement specifications.
● Liaised with IT infrastructure for release management and wrote technical specifications.
● Provided timely help desk support, scheduling new features and bug fixes for release.
● Implemented unit and integration tests within a CI environment using Visual Studio with TFS.
Java Developer - Durham University (Bayesline-
Contracted to develop, test and integrate decision support algorithms into a software tool for traders to
assess the risk of buying and selling commodities in the futures market. The role required frequent contact
and attendance at meetings with key stakeholders and traders for producing requirements specification and
delivering demonstrations.
C++ / Windows MFC Developer - Durham University and British Telecom-
Contracted to design, implement and document a highly successful software tool, that used Bayesian
Networks for a new approach to software testing. The software tool was developed using Windows MFC and
C++. Collaborated with BT management, developers and testers to analyse inputs and the software
architecture for use in their internal case study application. The software tool demonstration reported failure
probabilities for a variety of inputs.
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Durham University
2004 - 2005
Delivered Java programming exercises and assignments to first year Computer Science undergraduates.
Encouraged, motivated and supported students with their learning.
EDUCATION
Ph.D in Distributed Computing EPSRC
BSc(Hons) Computing, 1st Class Honours
Durham University
University Of Sunderland
2000 - - 2000
CERTIFICATES
Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PCET)
University Of Sunderland
2010 - 2011
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Cloud
Databases
Languages
Miscellaneous
OS
Server
Software Tools
Web / Server
Google Cloud Platform • Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) • Docker • Docker-Compose.
PostgreSQL • Oracle • SQL Server.
C# • ASP.NET Core • C • C++ • Python 3.10+ • JavaScript • Typescript • Visual Basic.
Bash • Minio • Tusd • Uppy • Pip • SignalR • Setuptools.
Linux • MacOS • Microsoft Windows.
NestJS • NodeJS.
Enterprise Architect • PyCharm • SSADM Select • UML • Visual Studio • VSCode.
Angular 6+ • React 16 • Redux • Typescript • RxJS6 • Jest • React-Testing-Library Enzyme •
Cypress • ASP.NET 2 • Nginx • HTML • CSS • XML.
PERSONAL SKILLS
Analytical • Problem Solving • Self-Development • Teamwork • Technical Writing • Methodical
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