College Graduate
Simon earned his Bachelor of Science in Information Technology at the end of 2011, with a minor in psychology. His areas of concentration were Application Development and Unix/Linux Systems, with some extra coursework in Database Administration.
Years Of Experience
With over eight years of experience in software engineering, Simon knows what he's doing. These days he's the most focused on Ruby and JavaScript, but he's been all over with programming languages, including PHP, Java, and Swift.
Diverse Skill Set
Simon has a proven ability to fulfill multiple roles in the workplace, as opposed to being a mere "code monkey". As a full-time employee, Simon has met and exceeded demands for front and back-end web development, API design, mentoring, as well as team leadership.
Industries
Simon has worked in many different industries so far:
Skills
PHP
- Laravel / Lumen
- CakePHP
- CodeIgniter
- Composer
- PHPUnit
Ruby
- Rails
- Sinatra
- ActiveRecord
- RSpec / FactoryBot
Backend
- mySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Redis / Resque / Sidekiq
- ElasticSearch
- Docker
- New Relic
Collaboration Tools
- Git / GitHub
- JIRA
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
Frontend
- JavaScript / ES6
- Vue.js
- React / Redux
- Bootstrap
- Bulma
Amazon Web Services
- S3
- ElasticBeanstalk
- API Gateway
- Lambda
- SQS
About
Simon Bacquie is a software engineer located in Pembroke Pines, FL. He has lived and worked in South Florida his whole life. He started programming at the age of nine, with QBasic on his 486. He went to FIU for college, and from there, started out his professional career slicing Photoshop designs into PHP landing pages and HTML emails. Since then, he has built up his skills and experience to be the senior full stack engineer he is today. Over the years he has proven to be a valuable asset at several different companies, and he even started his own freelance development company. In his free time, Simon likes to wax his moustache, lift kettlebells, and play video games.