Simon Lang
Lead Software Engineer at The Lens
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolSimon Lang is a Lead Software Engineer in Brisbane with over 20 years of industry experience and a Software Engineering degree from The University of Queensland. He specialises in modern TypeScript and Node.js development while comfortably navigating a broad stack that includes real-time systems, high-traffic architectures, various databases, and searchable indexes. Simon has delivered production software across e-commerce, gaming, logistics, finance, education and scholarly publishing, bringing pragmatic “best tool for the job” decisions and strong attention to accessibility, performance and documentation. A pragmatic engineer who champions SOLID principles, TDD and CI/container workflows, he’s equally comfortable diving into legacy codebases and designing scalable, secure RESTful services. Colleagues describe him as an easy-going technical lead who pairs deep debugging skill and meticulousness with a curiosity for new technologies.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering at The University of Queensland
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Github Skills (115)
github10
markdown10
browser-detection10
editor9
plot9
facebook-graph-api9
server-side9
vega-lite9
render9
vega9
device-detection9
state-machine9
bot-detection9
microsoft9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
simon-lang/mars-rover-photos
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
simon-lang/simonlang.org
Feb 2015 - Apr 2026
Contributions:87 pushes, 2 branches in 11 years 4 months
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