Simon is a hands-on software architect and a senior consultant at C5 Alliance in Jersey. Over the past 12 years, he’s been involved in projects ranging from rich desktop clients and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and service-oriented architectures; predominantly within the finance industry. He's also undertaken consulting and training roles with a broader focus on people, process and technology.

Simon is additionally active in wider aspects of the IT industry. Using his architecture experience, he founded the Coding the Architecture website and London user group, which bring together and deliver content for the growing community of hands-on pragmatic software architects. He has also written and co-written a number of books about Java EE web technologies, spoken at a number of high profile software development conferences, developed a software architecture training course and actively maintains a public blog.

E-mail : simon.brown at codingthearchitecture.com

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"Coding the Architecture" is a website and community for hands-on, pragmatic software architects. Here you'll find content and discussion about architecture and the role of an architect, along with our experiences of undertaking that role. Read more...

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Watch the video from our September 2008 London User Group, where we tried to answer the question of how much architecture is enough architecture.

• What is architecture?
  Towards a definition of architecture
• Types of architecture
  Treat enterprise architectures with a pinch of salt
• The role of a hands-on software architect
  What should a hands-on software architect do?
• Mind the gap
  Reducing the gap between software developers and software architects

• Modifying Open Services
  There's been a huge push recently towards service oriented architectures - sharing services within an organisation with benefits such as reuse and making information consistent. Take a simple example such as a catalogue of products for a furniture ...
• The role of the Software Architect in successful projects
  Admittedly the "Coding the Architecture" audience for this is probably kind of small (hi Dave!), but I'm presenting a session at the Jersey BCS in a few weeks entitled "The role of the Software Architect in successful projects". The IT industry has a ...
• Becoming more architecturally aware - part 2
  Last time I talked about how we need to understand how application frameworks are designed and work behind the scenes in order to produce code that is consistent and compliant with the overall architectural principles. The second aspect that we need to ...