David Simons
Head Of Engineering at Kaluza
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Simons is a strategy- and culture-focused Head of Engineering based in London with 11 years of hands-on experience building distributed systems, data platforms and developer-facing APIs. He currently leads ~25 engineers at Kaluza, owning delivery, architecture and teams spanning frontend, data, platform and authentication, and previously defined their data vision as the company’s first data architect. His background includes leading Kafka/Confluent multi-tenant streaming platforms at Citi and event-sourced microservices at Mettle, giving him deep expertise in real-time data, BigQuery/GraphQL public interfaces and Data Mesh patterns. A former test automation contributor to the popular jbake static site project, he combines operational rigor with a strong emphasis on hiring, mentoring and inclusive culture—he founded Kaluza’s Pride Network. Trained as a mathematician at Oxford and with additional linguistics study, he blends analytical precision with clear communication to turn complex technical strategy into predictable, incremental delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Mathematics (MMath) Mathematics and Statistics, Master of Mathematics (MMath) Mathematics and Statistics at University of OxfordGraduate Certificate (GradCert) Linguistics, Graduate Certificate (GradCert) Linguistics at Birkbeck, University of LondonHigh School, High School at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
English
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
junit10
mockito10
java10
testing10
static-site-generator9
relationship9
neo4j9
javascript6
cypher6
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jbake-org/jbake
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Java based open source static site/blog generator for developers & designers.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 issue in 1 day
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on implementing and maintaining tests for the jbake project. Their commits added and modified test cases for various renderers including archive, tags, index, and sitemap renderers, demonstrating a strong focus on testing different aspects of the static site generation process. The code changes included tests to ensure that the renderers behave correctly in various scenarios, covering both positive and negative test cases using mocking and assertions. The user also worked on testing of document types within jbake.
blog-siteblog-generatorstatic-sitejbakejsinterop
SwamWithTurtles/personalsite
Jan 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:35 pushes in 8 years 10 months
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