Summary
Simo Tchokni is an engineering manager specializing in recommendations with a decade of hands-on experience across Python/Django, Java and C++, and a strong background in machine learning and data engineering. He has led teams and projects at companies from Google to Memrise and Depop, shipping production ML models, data pipelines, and internal tooling while improving experiment reliability and data infrastructure. Known for mentoring and coaching—formally as a Makers instructor—he combines people development with technical leadership to move projects from R&D to production. A Cambridge-trained engineer who also trained as a yoga teacher, he brings analytical rigor and atypical empathy to cross-functional work at the intersection of software, analytics and data science.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
European Baccalaureate, 96, European Baccalaureate, 96 at European School of Karlsruhe
Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA Hons), Computer Science, First Class, Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA Hons), Computer Science, First Class at University of Cambridge
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Teacher Training/Yoga Therapy, 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Teacher Training/Yoga Therapy at Frog Lotus Yoga International
German, English, French