Simon Otter
Director at KPMG UK
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Otter is a seasoned technology leader and Director with over 25 years in IT and 13 years in senior engineering and leadership roles, currently shaping strategy at KPMG UK. He combines hands-on software engineering pedigree with proven delivery of cloud-first, secure architectures and scaled Agile (SAFe) practices across multi-disciplinary, distributed teams. Simon has led large transformation programs, migrated legacy portfolios to microservices and AWS, and managed multi-million-pound budgets while improving delivery reliability and DevSecOps culture. He excels at translating business priorities into pragmatic technical roadmaps, having driven platform reuse, ISO‑27000 security practices and rapid disaster recovery improvements. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative mentor who balances process discipline with technical curiosity — he also appreciates art, math and tea, and jokes that an optimal program would combine all three. Based in Leeds, he brings sustained cross-sector experience from start-ups to global enterprises, uniting product, engineering and commercial teams to realise measurable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Software Engineering at Sheffield Hallam UniversityNanodegree Full Stack Web Developer, Nanodegree Full Stack Web Developer at Udacity'A' levels Computer Science Mathematics Physics, 'A' levels Computer Science Mathematics Physics at Thomas Rotherham College
English, Spanish
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Github contributions (5)
skurmedel/latticenoise
Nov 2012 - Jun 2016
Contributions:66 commits, 7 pushes in 3 years 6 months
skurmedel/bfcc
Apr 2013 - Jan 2017
Contributions:36 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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