Simone Smith
Engineering Manager at The Guardian
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimone Smith is an engineering manager at The Guardian with nine years of software experience and a background that spans product-focused iOS development through to team leadership. A Makers Academy graduate, she progressed from software engineer to senior iOS developer and now leads engineering efforts at a major news organisation, blending newsroom priorities with robust mobile and backend delivery. Her early career in publishing and foreign rights gives her a rare sensitivity to content, metadata and stakeholder communication that informs how she shapes technical roadmaps. Based in the UK and literate in Spanish and Russian from Oxford, she brings cross-cultural perspective and strong communication skills to distributed teams. She maintains a technical CV and code samples on GitHub, signaling continued hands-on involvement alongside managerial responsibilities.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Spanish and Russian, BA, Spanish and Russian at University of OxfordNorth London Collegiate School
Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, French
Github Skills (71)
elasticsearch10
guardian10
rest10
search-engine10
java10
android-app10
rendering9
non-blocking9
android-apps9
ruby9
http9
bakery9
automation9
rest-api9
circe9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
simone-smith/acebook-off-the-rails
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Template for the AceBook project
Contributions:55 PRs, 77 pushes, 14 branches in 11 days
template
aoifemcl15/fastlane-plugin-clean_testflight_testers
Sep 2024 - Oct 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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