Simon Hewins

This service addresses an Open Banking industry wide problem - how to test your APP or API with real/live accounts. See http://qeetoto.com

Created this React personal profile using a template from forked from MICHAEL D`ANGELO. Create to demo speed I can pick up new technolgies. I learn through doing - typically by following in the footsteps of others so as to not re-invent the wheel.

Designed, developed, implemented, branded, promoted and hosted Texas Hedge’Em® an online card game based on the mathematically probability of events occurring. Submitted US Patent and secured UK Trade Mark. Presented to multiple C-level executives securing development on professional platform. Grossed £2m in placed bets in first year. The game is still enjoyed by players in many online casinos (see https://slotcatalog.com/en/slots/Texas-Hedge-Em for list). Unfortunately, as great as this game is, I will not be retiring on it; the industry is fierce - read more in my post about this.

Built a full CI/CD DevOps pipeline before this terms even existed. The original product supported an 80+ development team that built the original .gov.uk website. Every developer had there own environment including an Oracle schema - which was quite novel at the time. Whilst the project was a technical success, it was a commercial failure as we the four founders spent too much effort on the tech and not enough on the commercials. We have retired the product now, but it is still available to anyone who asks. Fun fact: We called our early builds "Batman Builds" because they built over night!