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I'm Simon Hartcher, a solo software consultant and former startup CTO with 18+ years in software engineering. I act as a trusted advisor for engineering teams, startups, and growing product businesses, helping them ship reliable software at scale. I'm the co-founder and maintainer of Scoop, the Windows command-line installer with 23,000+ stars on GitHub, and I enjoy building across the stack—from bare-metal systems programming in Zig and C, through infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, to web applications with Laravel, React, and TypeScript, and mobile apps with Flutter and React Native. I’m a builder at heart and still love writing code every day.…I'm Simon Hartcher, a solo software consultant and former startup CTO with 18+ years in software engineering. I act as a trusted advisor for engineering teams, startups, and growing product businesses, helping them ship reliable software at scale. I'm the co-founder and maintainer of Scoop, the Windows command-line installer with 23,000+ stars on GitHub, and I enjoy building across the stack—from bare-metal systems programming in Zig and C, through infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, to web applications with Laravel, React, and TypeScript, and mobile apps with Flutter and React Native. I’m a builder at heart and still love writing code every day.

Simon Hartcher

Full Stack Developer, Architect, Fractional CTO, +2

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I'm Simon Hartcher, a solo software consultant and former startup CTO with 18+ years in software engineering. I act as a trusted advisor for engineering teams, startups, and growing product businesses, helping them ship reliable software at scale. I'm the co-founder and maintainer of Scoop, the Windows command-line installer with 23,000+ stars on GitHub, and I enjoy building across the stack—from bare-metal systems programming in Zig and C, through infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, to web applications with Laravel, React, and TypeScript, and mobile apps with Flutter and React Native. I’m a builder at heart and still love writing code every day.…I'm Simon Hartcher, a solo software consultant and former startup CTO with 18+ years in software engineering. I act as a trusted advisor for engineering teams, startups, and growing product businesses, helping them ship reliable software at scale. I'm the co-founder and maintainer of Scoop, the Windows command-line installer with 23,000+ stars on GitHub, and I enjoy building across the stack—from bare-metal systems programming in Zig and C, through infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, to web applications with Laravel, React, and TypeScript, and mobile apps with Flutter and React Native. I’m a builder at heart and still love writing code every day.

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I’m Simon Hartcher, a solo software consultant and former startup CTO with 18+ years in software engineering. I act as a trusted advisor for engineering teams, startups, and growing product businesses, helping them ship reliable software at scale. I’m the co-founder and maintainer of Scoop, the Windows command-line installer with 23,000+ stars on GitHub, and I enjoy building across the stack—from bare-metal systems programming in Zig and C, through infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, to web applications with Laravel, React, and TypeScript, and mobile apps with Flutter and React Native. I’m a builder at heart and still love writing code every day.

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Work Experience

Chief Technical Officer at Bonjoro Pty Ltd

January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2023

Business strategy • Engineering recruitment and management • System architecture and design • Data science and analytics • Implementation of scrum • Maintaining relationships with technical vendors

Senior Full Stack Developer at Bonjoro Pty Ltd

January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2019

Requirements gathering • Scoping • Communicating with stakeholders • Infrastructure architecture/deployment • Database design • Scalability • Optimisation • Software development • Continuous integration/continuous delivery • Software testing • Observability

Senior Technical Lead at Smart Sports Solutions

January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2016

Systems architecture • Agile development • Project management • System administration • Database administration

Events Manager / IT Support at PROticket Pty Ltd

January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2013

Customer support • Quality assurance • System administration • Database administration • Network administration

Owner / Principal Consultant at Simon Hartcher Services Pty Ltd

July 1, 2025 - Present

Solo professional services consultancy specializing in software engineering, architecture, and infrastructure. Real Life Community Group projects; website redesign and infrastructure modernization for Byte rix Labs; built an end-to-end encrypted zero-trust key management system in Zig with OpenSSL; developed a Flutter mobile app (iOS, Android) with end-to-end encryption, Clerk SSO integration, and multi-environment deployment; agentic AI process training for Real Meals; Laravel application security and performance audits.

Chief Technology Officer at GoKinda

August 1, 2019 - July 1, 2025

Technical leadership and architecture for the platform, including platform strategy and engineering direction across teams, with a focus on scalable cloud infrastructure and modern development practices.

Lead Dev, DevOps, Data Science at Bonjoro

November 1, 2016 - August 1, 2019

Led engineering teams and product development for a video marketing and onboarding platform; migrated the platform to serverless/cloud architecture; implemented CI/CD pipelines; data analytics and analytics-driven improvements.

Events Manager / Software Developer at ProTicket Pty Ltd

May 1, 2008 - August 1, 2014

Self-taught on the job, progressing from event management to software development; software design, system administration, database administration, QA, and client support.

Founder at Double Word Labs

July 1, 2022 - Present

Game development founder; released several games on itch.io; currently developing Parasite Attack 1984 for Steam; organized the Siligong Valley game dev meetup; working with Godot 4 and Zig bindings.