Simon Burchell
Engineering Manager at Betfred
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Burchell is an engineering manager with 15+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver business-aligned, scalable technology solutions across ecommerce, media, and retail. He combines deep hands-on roots in systems and real-time engineering with a strong track record of building autonomous, product-focused teams and embedding agile, continuous delivery practices at scale. Simon has driven transformation at organisations from Auto Trader and the BBC to Sainsbury’s and Moneysupermarket, consistently shifting teams from project mindsets to long-lived product ownership and measurable flow improvements. Equally comfortable recruiting and coaching leaders as he is resolving technical debt, he has shipped mobile and backend platforms, introduced DevOps culture, and contributed to open-source system automation (Rex). Based in Stevenage, he brings a pragmatic, outcome-first approach that surfaces hidden bottlenecks and turns them into sustained delivery momentum.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
University of Staffordshire
Github Skills (8)
rex10
configuration-management10
automation10
automations10
perl10
devops10
bash8
openssh8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RexOps/Rex
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Rex, the friendly automation framework
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements related to the `Rex` automation framework. Their work includes addressing issues in the OpenSSH connection interface and fixing undefined variable usage, ensuring the framework's stability and reliability. Additionally, the user added support for the `df` command and improved the output of the `ps` command, improving Rex's core functionality. These changes suggest an understanding of both backend system automation and DevOps-related system administration tasks.
infrastructure-automationrexdevopsframeworkautomation
sbertrang/redis-distlock
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:60 commits, 1 comment in 13 days
redisdistributed-locklockdistributed
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