Kieran Simpson
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKieran Simpson is a Senior Java Software Engineer with 14 years' experience building high-availability, high-volume systems and customer-facing apps from Android to emerging iOS work. He moves fluidly between hands-on implementation and architecture—designing APIs, integration layers and scalable backend services while also shipping web and mobile clients. A pragmatic advocate of SOLID design, testability and continuous delivery, he combines Java, Node.js and DevOps tooling (Docker, AWS CDK, Puppet) with agile practices and a Certified Scrum Master mindset. He’s co-founded startups, contributed to open source, and led mobile and API initiatives at banks and product companies, comfortable playing BA/architect/developer/QA roles as needed. Based in Melbourne, he also serves his community as a local councillor and deputy mayor, bringing stakeholder engagement and civic perspective into product decisions.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Software Engineering with Honours, Bachelor Software Engineering with Honours at Monash University
English
Github Skills (200)
openapi10
lift10
api10
api-server10
nodejs10
api-client10
rest-api10
rest-client10
javascript10
sdk10
rest10
server-side10
restful-api10
generator10
adt10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
kierans/google-maps-vuer
Jan 2020 - Jan 2025
A Vue component to use Google Maps
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
vuevue-componentgoogle-mapsvuejs
kierans/DefinitelyTyped
Oct 2017 - Dec 2023
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Contributions:11 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 2 months
compilationtypescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitycjs
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