Simon Henbury — CV
Senior Software Engineer · Technical leader · Independent product builder
Technical Lead · Principal Engineer · CTO opportunities
Bromsgrove, United Kingdom · simonhenbury@live.co.uk
I'm Simon — a senior software engineer, hands-on technical leader, and independent product builder. I connect architecture, delivery and the people who use what we build.
RAC · Senior Software Engineer
- I planned, architected and built a communications system that now supports the majority of digital breakdown communications.
- Developed net deficit hours calculations and collaborated on a UK map used by the entire leadership team to understand patrol busyness and guide operational changes.
- Stepped up to help plan and organise work within the AI and In-Day Optimisation team.
- Contributed Terraform, DevOps and internal tooling for Rust/PostgreSQL, plus controlled third-party API access through Azure API Management.
Purplebricks · Software Engineer → Technical Lead
- Within the finance team, I led our product API replatform to BigCommerce, working alongside three senior engineers on implementation.
- Delivered custom integration for an unsupported payment provider, with secure payment-data handling as a central requirement.
- Trusted escalation point for production incidents, particularly DevOps-related issues.
CoreLogic · Automation Engineer → Software Developer
- I developed a way to correct unreliable UK property-boundary polygon data and created tools allowing manual intervention.
- Contributed to PAS Hub with the team, alongside reusable UI/API test frameworks and automation.
Independent products
Psytrade — I designed and built a research and Trading 212 Practice workspace, combining rules-based experiments with AI-assisted research and explicit operational controls.
VolleyPsy — I play volleyball and found coaching software expensive. I independently designed and built VolleyPsy to offer useful team tools for £5 per team per month.
Technical toolkit
C#, .NET, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Angular, Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, SQL, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure DevOps, Playwright, API testing and AI integrations.
Education & earlier experience
- Master's degree, Business Computing — Birmingham City University, 2017–2018
- Bachelor of Games and Digital Media — University of Wolverhampton, 2012–2014
- Wesleyan: postgraduate gamification research, 2018.
- English teaching in South Korea, 2015–2016.