Simon Plenderleith
Staff Software Engineer at David Zwirner
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Plenderleith is a Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with over two decades of experience architecting resilient web platforms and developer tooling. He blends hands-on full‑stack development (Node.js, TypeScript, React) with technical leadership—building systems, CD/CI pipelines and CLIs that scale across dozens of services. Simon has a strong developer-education streak, having designed and delivered TypeScript curricula and workshops for engineering teams at Netflix, PayPal and HashiCorp and produced hundreds of instructional lessons. He excels at translating product needs into pragmatic engineering roadmaps, from CRM migrations and ETL pipelines to real-time dashboards and SaaS features. Known for improving delivery speed and reliability, he’s driven measurable business outcomes like accelerating releases and launching revenue-generating product sections. Beyond code, he focuses on cultivating engineering excellence through mentoring, documentation and community-driven open source advocacy.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Eggbuckland Community College
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (171)
postgresql10
expressjs10
json-schema10
openapi10
fastify10
rest10
monorepo10
json10
counter10
nodejs10
ajv10
graphql10
web-framework10
middleware9
javascript9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
simonplend/whats-new-in-node-js-core
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
simonplend/workshop-crafting-human-friendly-clis
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Workshop: Crafting Human Friendly CLIs with Node.js Core
Contributions:38 commits, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 20 days
nodejs
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