Colin Simmons
Senior Lead Software Engineer (VP) at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolColin Simmons is a Senior Lead Software Engineer (VP) with a decade of experience building and operating developer-focused platforms and cloud-native tooling across finance, retail, and enterprise consultancy. He combines hands-on skills in Go, Ruby, Concourse, BOSH, Cloud Foundry/Tanzu, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud infrastructure with a track record of helping over 25 clients migrate to automated, platform-as-a-product architectures. At EngineerBetter he championed pair programming, SLIs/SLOs, and repeatable automation; more recently he’s driving platform engineering at JPMorgan Chase. He’s an unapologetic BOSH apologist and active contributor to Cloud Foundry and Concourse ecosystems, which reflects a pragmatic bias for robust systems management. Dual UK/Canadian citizen based in London, he pairs deep operational experience with developer empathy to simplify complex, regulated production environments.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS), Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) at The University of British ColumbiaInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at The International School of Kuala LumpurBachelor of Commerce with Honours (BCom) Finance, Bachelor of Commerce with Honours (BCom) Finance at UBC Sauder School of Business
English, French
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Github Skills (74)
continuous-delivery10
elm10
hero10
deploying10
continuous-integration10
gocd10
bosh10
concourse10
pcf10
cloud-foundry9
containerd9
cli9
terraform9
runc9
foundry9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
EngineerBetter/pcfops-docker
Aug 2018 - Feb 2021
Docker image for general PCF Ops
Contributions:39 commits, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
opsdocker-imagedockerpcf
crsimmons/concourse-creator
Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:45 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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