Simon Brown
... Data Platform ...
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Brown is a seasoned data platform engineer and technology leader with nearly three decades of engineering experience and nine years focused on data platforms at N-able and SolarWinds MSP. He has led engineering and product teams from startups to enterprise environments—serving as Head of Engineering and Principal Engineer—bringing deep expertise in distributed systems, production operations and research-focused digital environments. His academic background in mathematics and an MPhil in theoretical computer science (parallelism and logic) informs a rigorous, architecture-first approach to scalable data solutions. Based in Edinburgh, he combines hands-on engineering with long-term delivery leadership, often translating complex research or domain requirements into production-grade platforms. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who balances product thinking with operational reliability. Despite a strong leadership track record, he remains technically engaged and enjoys bridging legacy systems and modern cloud-native data stacks.
9 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
MPhil, Theoretical Computer Science — parallelism and logic, MPhil, Theoretical Computer Science — parallelism and logic at The University of EdinburghBA (Mod), Mathematics, BA (Mod), Mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin
Github Skills (20)
eda10
risk-assessment10
data-driven9
data-analysis9
python8
frame8
pandas8
manipulation7
predictive7
data-structures7
data-science6
dataframes5
metadata4
data-manipulation4
javascript3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
simonbrownsb/ChessProject
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Developer interview project
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
interview-projectjavascript
simonbrownsb/meetupdata
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Command-line Python access to Meetup.com data via its API, fetching data as CSV or JSON.
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
csvapipythonfetchingapi-fetching
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