Simon Aubury
Principal Data Engineer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Aubury is a Principal Data Engineer with 11+ years building highly available, distributed data platforms across finance, utilities, insurance, telecommunications and defence. He combines deep hands-on expertise in databases, streaming (Kafka/Spark/Flink), cloud migrations and real‑time architectures with proven leadership running teams and service lines at organisations like Thoughtworks, IAG and Commonwealth Bank. At scale he designs data lakes and streaming patterns that enable continuous integration and rapid deployment of data products, and has led delivery for millions of banking customers and enterprise-grade platforms. Comfortable from low-level SQL and Oracle tuning through Java/Scala/Python development to platform architecture, he bridges technical rigor and stakeholder engagement. A globetrotting practitioner based in Sydney, he brings uncommon breadth—from core banking modernization to IoT and digital initiatives—plus a track record of public speaking and mentoring in the data community.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityBIT IT Electrical Engineering, BIT IT Electrical Engineering at ANU
Github Skills (42)
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raspberry8
confluent-cloud8
sql8
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kafka-streams8
consumption8
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connect7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
saubury/cat-predict
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 3 pushes in 5 months
saubury/saubury.github.io
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:75 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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