Simon Foster
Lead Software Engineer at funkysi1701.com
Doncaster, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Foster is a pragmatic software developer from Doncaster with over a decade of hands-on experience spanning software development, sysadmin, server infrastructure, databases and DevOps. He specializes in .NET C#, Blazor, .NET Core, JavaScript, SQL Server and REST APIs, and has a strong track record modernizing legacy systems into modular, web-enabled microservices on Azure. Recent roles at Optix and Bluetree involved improving platform reliability, observability and deployment practices across microservice estates. He combines operational sensibilities from his IT management background with developer-first automation to make delivery faster and more reliable. Outside work he publishes technical writing and side projects on funkysi1701.com, showing a commitment to continuous learning and practical experimentation.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys Physics, MPhys Physics at University of YorkRedhill Comprehensive School
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Github Skills (69)
connect-four10
trend10
get-started9
twitter9
blazor-client9
appconfig9
blazor-component9
blazor-server9
appsettings9
azure-app-configuration9
ping9
blazor8
iis8
blazor-client-side8
razor-components8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
funkysi1701/ExchangeRate
Feb 2017 - Dec 2023
My first R script for getting exchange rates
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 10 months
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funkysi1701/Connect4TDD
Feb 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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