Simon Aquino
Principal Platform Consultant
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Aquino is a hands-on builder-leader and Principal Platform Consultant with 15+ years delivering cloud-native platforms and organisational transformation across FinTech, GovTech and enterprise environments. He specialises in turning “startup chaos” into enterprise-grade Internal Developer Platforms and has scaled cloud enablement teams from a seed of 3 to 50+ engineers while embedding Golden Path patterns that encode security and compliance. Technically fluent across GCP, AWS, Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Crossplane, Terraform and Go/Python, he remains an active practitioner—designing low-latency payment rails, GitOps workflows and AI-native developer experiences. He combines this with commercial stewardship, briefing C-suite stakeholders and managing multi-million pound vendor budgets to align roadmaps with business outcomes. An early open-source contributor to tooling like aptly and Puppet modules, he demonstrates a sustained commitment to test-driven infrastructure and backward compatibility. Dual UK/EU national based in London, he is available for roles across the UK and Europe and often operates as a “player-coach,” driving adoption through pair programming and mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Hons Computer Science and Electronics, Master of Engineering (MEng) Hons Computer Science and Electronics at University of Bristol
English, German, Italian, Danish
Github Skills (20)
puppeteer10
puppet10
debian10
testing10
packaging10
rspec10
ruby10
rabbitmq10
go10
devops10
test-automation10
configuration-management9
automation9
automations9
sorting8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aptly-dev/aptly
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
aptly - Debian repository management tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed to the `aptly` project by implementing features related to package sorting and version handling within the Debian repository management tool. They also added functionality for pulling multiple packages based on dependency versions. Furthermore, the user worked on integration tests using Go, enhancing the reliability and functionality of the tool. Additionally, they implemented new commands to the aptly system, specifically tasks.
packaginglinuxaptlyrepository-managementmanagement-tool
voxpupuli/puppet-rabbitmq
Jun 2014 - Dec 2014
RabbitMQ Puppet Module
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on modifying the module's repository management and testing infrastructure. They implemented changes to manage package repositories using `apt::source` and `rabbitmq::repo::rhel`, ensuring proper installation and configuration. They also introduced and expanded RSpec tests, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and backward compatibility. The user refactored variable names and added a deprecation warning to maintain compatibility during the variable renaming.
puppetpuppet-modulelinux-puppet-modulerabbitmqbsd-puppet-module
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