Hi - thanks for dropping by. I'm Simon Prickett, a skilled Developer Relations practitioner with over 30 years of technical training, software architecture, team and product management and software development experience.

In my most recent employment, I was solely responsible for all things Developer Relations atCrateDB.

Prior to that I was the Principal Developer Advocate forRedis, where I led the team that develops course materials and accompanying example applications, videos and blog posts for the onlineRedis University courses. I was the principal teacher for theRedis for JavaScript (Node.js) Developers course, and have also contributed to theRedis Streams,Storing Querying and Indexing JSON at Speed andRedis for Java Developers courses. I spoke at conferences and events, desiged and delivered workshops, answered technical questions on Discord and StackOverflow and created a lot of technical live streams. I contributed code and documentation to several Redis client SDKs and other projects on a regular basis.

Outside of my day job, I enjoy tinkering with Raspberry Pi and Arduino single board computers and building hardware projects with them. I recently acquired a BBC micro:bit and need to spend some time learning about that. I periodically write about IoT topics and speak at Meetup groups or conferences.

Check out my website atsimonprickett.dev. You can also find me as@simon_prickett on Twitter, and in afew other places. I'm always open to talk about developer relations, learn more about me byreading my resume.

If you find value in my projects, please considerbuying me a coffee on Ko-Fi. Your support helps me buy materials for future projects.

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1. python-probabilistic-data-structurespython-probabilistic-data-structuresPublic

   Exploring Probabilistic Data Structures in Python - my 2021 Pycon USA and Australia and Pycon MEA 2022 talk.

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2. local-aircraft-trackerlocal-aircraft-trackerPublic

   Tracking aircraft passing overhead using dump1090, Redis Stack and Node.js

   JavaScript 19

3. nctx-stop-apinctx-stop-apiPublic

   Nottingham City Transport Bus Stop Departures mini API with Cloudflare Workers

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4. micropython-workshopmicropython-workshopPublic

   A MicroPython Workshop

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5. light-rail-gamelight-rail-gamePublic

   Maps based guessing game for Nottingham Tram stations. Runs on Cloudflare Pages/Workers.

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6. m5stack-atom-micropythonm5stack-atom-micropythonPublic

   Experiments with MicroPython on the M5 Stack Atom Matrix device.

   Python 5 1