Simon Xu
Hi, I’m Simon Xu, a software engineer with 20+ years of experience building scalable backend systems, modernising legacy stacks, and mentoring teams to deliver high-quality software.
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Hi, I’m Simon Xu, a software engineer with 20+ years of experience building scalable backend systems, modernising legacy stacks, and mentoring teams to deliver high-quality software. I excel at rapid learning, effective communication, and driving continuous improvement in fast-changing environments.
I thrive in Agile settings, love creating robust automation and infrastructure-as-code foundations, and enjoy helping teams deliver reliable software through thoughtful design, testing, and collaborative leadership.
- 21 years' experience
- Joined September 2025
Languages
- JavaneseFluent
- BashkirAdvanced
- EnglishFluent
Industry experience
- Software & Internet
- Professional Services
- Government
- Telecommunications
- Energy & Utilities
- Media & Entertainment
- Education
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Work experience· 24 roles
Design, develop, and deploy back-end services for electricity grid models, transmission pricing, finance, and investment systems.
Design, develop, and deploy backend services for electricity grid modelling, transmission pricing, finance, and investment systems. Modernised legacy on-prem Spring MVC applications into SpringBoot microservices on OpenShift; containerised, deployed; RESTful Java services; Python workloads on ROSA; AWS Lambda, S3, PostgreSQL; Kafka messaging; Grafana/Prometheus monitoring; GitLab CI/CD.
Modernised legacy on-prem Spring MVC applications into Spring Boot microservices; containerised and deployed on OpenShift; implemented RESTful Java services; AWS integration; monitoring with Kafka, Grafana and Prometheus.
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