Simon Beal
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Beal is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web services and developer-facing tools, currently contributing to Amazon S3 at AWS. He has a track record of modernising demo and production codebases, from performance-critical Python reimplementations that cut memory use dramatically to React-driven complex frontends and CI/CD with Docker. Comfortable across the stack, he blends backend efficiency (Flask, LMDB) with frontend polish and has shipped features that directly improved customer demos and product adoption. An active open-source contributor and pragmatist, he favours measurable gains—such as a 700× memory improvement on a filesystem tool—over theoretical designs. Based in the Greater Cambridge area, he brings deep hands-on delivery experience in both research and cloud environments and a knack for turning complex requirements into maintainable, deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Warwick
Github Skills (48)
filesystem10
python10
translation10
discord10
fuse10
stack10
kubernetes-cluster10
internationalization10
object-storage10
mountpoint10
localization10
code-golf10
aws10
amazon-s310
discord-bot10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
muddyfish/mountpoint-s3-csi-driver
May 2024 - Jul 2026
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI Driver
Contributions:1 PR, 106 pushes, 30 branches in 2 years 2 months
NQN-Discord/discord.py
Dec 2021 - Mar 2026
An API wrapper for Discord written in Python.
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 4 years 3 months
discordpython
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