Summary
Simon Madine is a Senior AI Engineer and seasoned technical leader with 15 years of experience turning bold prototypes into production-grade, scalable products. He combines hands-on engineering across firmware, cloud, and front-end stacks with strategic leadership—having led teams at HERE, co-founded and served as CTO of Workin, and recently driven AI initiatives at Komment and Fanvue. His strengths include rapid prototyping, architecting multi-language systems (NodeJS, Rust, Python, React), and operationalising infrastructure and CI/CD with Terraform for reliable delivery. He has deep domain experience in location, logistics, blockchain integration and real-time systems, and a track record of embedding privacy and security practices like ISO 27001 into product roadmaps. Colleagues value his ability to translate between execs, designers and engineers while mentoring teams to challenge assumptions and grow. Based in Edinburgh with a Maths & Computer Science degree from St Andrews, he’s as comfortable whiteboarding long-term strategy as he is shipping the next user-facing iteration.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Mathematics and Computer Science, BSc, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of St. Andrews
English, German, Japanese