Gissur Simonarson
Chief Technology Officer at Cloud Sherpa
Dunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGissur Simonarson is a seasoned Chief Technology Officer and Intelligent Workplace Architect with 11+ years of experience helping organisations worldwide optimize Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Azure estates to deliver better collaboration while cutting licensing waste. He has led complex cloud migrations and demergers—most notably driving a M365 demerger and ongoing optimisation for Haleon that saved over £1M annually—bringing practical cost-saving strategies to large enterprises in banking, healthcare, telecom and government. Gissur blends hands-on engineering (front-end, back-end, automation and CI/CD) with enterprise architecture and change governance, having overseen massive SharePoint farms and guided Microsoft 365 change boards. A builder at heart, he founded a fast-growing social news project and has a long history of upskilling teams on cloud-first practices and developer tooling. Based in Dunblane, Scotland, he focuses on leveraging tools customers already own to accelerate digital transformation rather than prescribing new vendors. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who turns messy legacy estates into streamlined, user-centric digital workplaces.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
IT, IT at Forest Park HighComputer Science, Computer Science at George Mason UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Háskólinn í Reykjavík
Icelandic, English, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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Github contributions (5)
GissiSim/conflictnews
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
GissiSim/callapplybind
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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