Simon Mansfield
Director, AI Engineering at GitLab
Compton Dundon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Mansfield is a Director of AI Engineering with 13 years of experience turning AI potential into practical, enterprise-grade solutions at GitLab. He leads cross-functional teams to design and deploy the company's internal AI roadmap, acting as "Customer Zero" to demonstrate measurable business outcomes while emphasizing data-first problem definition. Previously he built and scaled solutions architecture and pre-sales practices across EMEA, blending hands-on engineering with customer-facing leadership. His technical roots span GraphQL, React, Gatsby, webpack and AWS, with a background migrating services to serverless architectures and shipping production systems in C++, C#, Node.js and Ruby. Based in Compton Dundon, England, he pairs pragmatic governance and enablement with a culture-first management style that champions "Everyone Can Contribute." An underrated strength is his ability to translate complex R&D capabilities into tangible Go-To-Market value, aligning technical investments with commercial impact.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Swansea University / Prifysgol AbertaweGordano School
English
Github Skills (200)
twitter-typeahead10
serverless10
express-graphql10
clipboard10
dao10
pdfkit10
api10
inferno10
skeleton10
reactive-programming10
nodejs10
mongodb10
css10
bootstrap-components10
typeahead10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
marcolplastics/marcolplastics.github.io
Feb 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 79 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 11 months
Siyfion/angular-typeahead
May 2013 - Jun 2016
A very simple Angular.js wrapper around the Twitter Typeahead library.
Contributions:2 releases, 63 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 1 month
angular-jstypeaheadtwitter-typeaheadjs-wrappertwitter
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