Summary
Simon O'hanlon is a Senior Data Engineer and tech lead at Sainsbury’s Tech with 13 years’ experience building cloud-native data platforms that deliver personalised customer experiences at scale—his team has produced over 8 billion personalised offers to 9.4M customers. He combines production-grade engineering (Python, Spark, Snowflake, Airflow, AWS, Terraform, Docker) with academic rigor from a PhD and postdoctoral research at Imperial College London, where he was lead author on a Science paper that made international headlines. Before retail, he helped build blockchain analytics at TokenAnalyst, bringing hands-on crypto data experience to practical data products. Comfortable leading a seven-person agile team, he blends statistical and bioinformatics training with pragmatic platform delivery to turn complex data into reliable, auditable production services.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Modern Epidemiology, Mathematics and Statistics, Distinction, MSc Modern Epidemiology, Mathematics and Statistics, Distinction at Imperial College London
BSc, Biology, BSc, Biology at University of Bath