Simon O'brien
Staff Solutions Architect at VMware Tanzu Labs
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon O'Brien is a Staff Solutions Architect with 10+ years of experience helping enterprises in financial services, telco, manufacturing and defence adopt cloud-native platforms and DevOps practices. Based in Birmingham, he combines deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, GitOps and the Tanzu portfolio with a strong background in Java/Spring and CI/CD automation. He has driven platform and team transformations at VMware Tanzu Labs (and previously Pivotal) after a decade designing and delivering enterprise content and cloud solutions at EMC/OpenText and Dell EMC. Known for pragmatic knowledge transfer and pairing-led customer enablement, Simon blends architecture, mentoring and delivery to make complex platform builds repeatable and operable. He holds a First Class Computer Science degree from Aston University and often pairs platform engineering with practical Spring-based application guidance—an unusual combination that helps teams bridge infra and app concerns.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours at Aston University
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Github Skills (20)
console9
vcenter8
command-line8
windows8
cmd7
vsphere6
windows-terminal5
ansible5
vmware5
pcf2
windows-console1
docker1
compose1
terraform1
concourse1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ob1-sc/vmware-lab-builder
Feb 2021 - Dec 2024
Build a nested vSphere lab with Ansible
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
ansiblevspherelabvmware
ob1-sc/bosh-lite-concourse-minio
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:30 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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