Simon Kirkham is a senior engineering manager based in Manchester with 11 years of experience building and scaling product and integration teams across retail and fintech domains. He has led technical strategy and delivery for high-value commerce integrations—overseeing systems that processed more than $147M in sales—and has a track record of growing multi-team organizations from hands-on tech lead work through to chapter and senior management roles. Comfortable bridging architecture and delivery, he has driven cloud, CI/CD and API-first practices while partnering closely with stakeholders to enable faster, safer product delivery. Known for moving from deep technical design into people-focused leadership, he combines pragmatic engineering judgment with experience running cross-functional teams at companies from startups to enterprise brands.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Liverpool
Vagrant virtual workstations and development environments with Visual Studio, Docker, IIS and SQL Server on Windows for .NET development
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 branches in 11 days
remote-executionsql-servervagrantwindowsvms
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.