Simon Weber
Software Engineer at Freelance
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Weber is a New York–based software engineer with 14 years of experience building backend systems, dev tooling, and scalable infrastructure. At Venmo he moved from software engineer to staff/team lead, driving a migration to Kubernetes, building and scaling backend services, and owning mentorship, appsec, and on-call reliability. Since 2019 he’s worked freelance for startups like Revel, Artemis Analytics, and Otis Wealth, offering unusually broad cross-domain expertise that lets clients avoid hiring multiple specialists. He’s an active open-source contributor, notably adding a Venmo OAuth integration and backend refactors to Liberapay and improving documentation for the Real Python guide, blending hands-on integrations with clear developer-facing communication. A University of Rochester CS graduate and Recurse Center alum, he’s known for making complex systems auditable and maintainable in production.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The Recurse CenterBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Rochester
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Github Skills (22)
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documentations10
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documentation10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
liberapay/liberapay.com
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Source code of the recurrent donations platform Liberapay
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Simon contributed to the platform's back-end functionality, primarily by integrating Venmo as a payment option. This involved creating a Venmo-specific account class and implementing OAuth flows for authentication. Further contributions included refactoring the platform class registry for account elsewhere and migrating exceptions to a central module, with additional modifications to related files.
crowdfundingmoneypythonrecurrent
realpython/python-guide
Apr 2013 - Apr 2013
Python best practices guidebook, written for humans.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the documentation of the project, focusing on improving the style guide, fixing links, and adding content to the scenarios section. They also addressed issues by closing tickets related to documentation updates. Their contributions involved modifying ReStructuredText files to enhance clarity, accuracy, and organization within the guide.
guidebookpythonkennethreitzrequirements-managementfor-humans
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