Simon Scarfe
Principal Software Engineer at Finova
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Scarfe is a Principal Software Engineer with nearly two decades of hands-on experience building scalable web platforms and leading cross-functional teams across retail, media, and enterprise domains. He combines deep full-stack craftsmanship (TypeScript, Python, .NET, Go, AWS) with a pragmatic approach to architecture—favoring collaborative, fitness-function-driven designs and Domain-Driven Design over top-down edicts. Simon has steered large migrations (legacy e-commerce to MACH/CommerceTools, Auth0 to Cognito) and modernised estates toward serverless, IaC, and observability while maintaining operational stability and security. He is a people-first technical leader who grows capability through pairing, mobbing, workshops and experiments, preferring to present problems that spark ownership rather than hand down solutions. Based in the UK, he brings a proven track record at organisations like the BBC, Slalom Build and JD Sports of turning strategy into execution and embedding a documentation-first, data-driven culture. An early advocate of monorepos, backstage documentation and developer communities, he quietly focuses on the why as much as the what to keep teams aligned with reality.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
National Diploma, Computing, National Diploma, Computing at City College NorwichBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Teesside University
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Github Skills (66)
github10
testing10
javascript10
wordpress10
database-design10
html10
database10
angular10
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callback10
vue10
svelte10
documentation10
react-native10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SimonS/tdee-plaything
Oct 2019 - May 2026
A place for me to play around without having to worry about multiple repositories and versioning. If I get the urge to play with something new technically (or something not that new - WordPress, I'm looking at you 👀), it lives here until I get bored and delete it.
Contributions:1 review, 465 PRs, 570 pushes in 6 years 8 months
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SimonS/adventofcode-answers
Dec 2015 - Dec 2023
Contributions:105 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
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