Simon Rodgers
Chief Technology Officer at Luminance
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Rodgers is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14+ years of experience architecting and scaling low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems for financial services and SaaS products. He has a strong track record of growing engineering organisations—from startups to 120+ engineers—while leading cloud-native transformations, platform architecture, and incident escalations. Technically grounded as a former hands-on engineer, he focuses on Java, Linux, cloud services, algorithms, AI/ML, big data and resilient system design. Comfortable at the intersection of product and engineering, he shapes hiring, culture and light-touch processes that enable rapid delivery without sacrificing reliability. Based in the Greater Cambridge area and Cambridge-educated, he combines academic rigor with practical experience shipping mission-critical systems for banks, processors and fraud/risk platforms. An often-overlooked strength is his history of moving between deep technical roles and senior management, enabling rapid, pragmatic decisions during high-pressure incidents.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MA Natural Sciences, MA Natural Sciences at University of CambridgePerse School, Cambridge
Github Skills (3)
correlation9
cross-correlation9
time-series5
Github contributions (1)
simonrodgers/peakmatch-xcorr
Jun 2012 - Aug 2022
Contributions:57 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 10 years 3 months
time-series-analysiscross-correlationaggregationpeaklarge-numbers
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