Simon Ratcliffe
Owner, Principal at ReThynk
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Ratcliffe is a strategic planner, management consultant and entrepreneur with over 20 years’ experience designing resilient, low-carbon urban strategies and mitigating systemic risks across public and private sectors. As founder and principal of ReThynk and previous founder/CEO of Commerce One South Africa, he combines hands-on start-up scaling experience with senior advisory roles at DFID and UN agencies. Trained as an architect with an MSc and an MBA, he blends spatial thinking with rigorous strategic analysis to create integrated solutions for cities facing resource scarcity. Known as a lateral thinker and team builder, he has a track record of turning complex, cross-sector challenges into practical projects and policy interventions. He is equally comfortable coaching executives and leading multi-stakeholder networks, and often spots unconventional opportunities by connecting disparate issues. Outside formal roles he has a long-standing commitment to urban NGOs and entrepreneurial ventures that bridge environmental goals with market and social innovation.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at Warwick Business SchoolBA (Hons), BA (Hons) at University of the WitwatersrandMaster of Science, Master of Science at University College London, U. of London
English
Github Skills (44)
telescope10
data-access10
reduction9
streaming8
exchange8
observation8
controller7
science6
aio6
sdp5
retrieval5
python5
simulator5
snmp5
simulation5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sratcliffe/cephmetrics
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
ceph dashboards using grafana and prometheus
Contributions:15 commits, 6 pushes in 2 days
dashboardscephgrafanaprometheusgrafana-dashboard
ska-sa/katsdpdoctest
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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