Simon Flower
Skills Leader at British Geological Survey
Kirknewton, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Flower is a seasoned computing engineering manager and skills leader with three decades of experience designing real-time software and resilient data delivery systems for geophysical applications in some of the world’s most remote locations. He leads the software and IT architecture for geomagnetics at the British Geological Survey, managing around 80 staff in a matrix environment and driving workforce strategy, recruitment and performance processes. Simon has architected low-cost, high-availability pipelines and international data portals, chaired global observatory operations (INTERMAGNET) and even established a geomagnetic observatory on South Georgia. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and senior people leadership, he is now leading a major software migration while upskilling in data science technologies such as Python, Spark and MongoDB. A Chartered Engineer and Information Practitioner, he also brings uncommon field-proven experience integrating embedded real‑time systems with global data services and advising international bodies such as the UN CTBTO.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics at Royal Holloway, University of LondonPortsmouth Grammar School
Github Skills (12)
epos9
javascript8
earth8
dcat7
data-files5
c-library3
code-library3
cdf2
hapi1
metadata1
data-access1
specification1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
INTERMAGNET/imcdf-lib-c
Mar 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 9 months
code-librarydata-filescdfc-library
INTERMAGNET/wg-www-gins-data-formats
Jul 2019 - Mar 2025
Repository to track working group discussions for WWW/Gins/Data Formats
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 47 comments in 5 years 8 months
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