Simon Dickson
Thatcham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarSimon Dickson is a seasoned web technologist and product-focused strategist based in Thatcham, UK, with a career in the web business since 1995 and 11 years of documented professional experience. He co-founded Code For The People, specialized in large-scale WordPress development, and spent five years on Automattic’s WordPress VIP team helping major publishers move to cloud platforms. Now operating as a Product Owner/Director/Strategist, he bridges client needs and engineering execution and frequently builds prototypes himself to accelerate decision-making and delivery. Beyond WordPress he contributes to open-source tooling—most notably implementing ODBC CRUD for the F# SQLProvider and improving Paket’s test infrastructure—showing strong backend and QA/test-automation skills. Pragmatic about tools and methodologies, he prioritizes delivery and fosters collaborative teams empowered to make wise day-to-day decisions.
12 years of coding experience
French, German, Latin
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Github Skills (24)
admin10
f-sharp10
testing10
net10
nunit10
databases10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
database-administration10
odbc10
type-providers10
sql10
aspnet10
database10
package-managers9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fsprojects/SQLProvider
Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
A general F# SQL database erasing type provider, supporting LINQ queries, schema exploration, individuals, CRUD operations and much more besides.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 1 comment in 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily worked on implementing and improving the ODBC type provider for the F# SQL provider project. Their contributions included initial code for the ODBC provider, attempts to integrate individual data fetching, and fixes related to column names and querying. They also addressed issues related to querying and data manipulation within the ODBC context, including making inserts work. They also implemented Crud fully for ODBC, which demonstrated a significant contribution.
sqlserverfsharpcrudlinqcrud-operations
fsprojects/Paket
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
A dependency manager for .NET with support for NuGet packages and Git repositories.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Simon's contributions primarily involve updating and modifying test configurations and test files within the `Paket` project. The changes include migrating test frameworks from older versions of NUnit to NUnit3, fixing test behaviors on different operating systems (e.g., Mac), and adding tests to cover edge cases, such as potentially corrupt files. The user focuses on ensuring the reliability and correctness of the testing infrastructure by correcting implementation details in different test scenarios.
repositoriesdotnetfsharpmonopackage-manager
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