Summary
Simon Rowland is a Staff Software Engineer with two decades of experience and a decade focused on Python and scalable backend systems, APIs, microservices, and data pipelines. He has led teams and projects across startups and enterprises—shaping resilient, well-tested systems at companies like Futrli, HUMAN, and currently Fetch.ai where he’s integrating LLMs into product work. Known for first-class communication and development diligence, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong Agile customer-focused delivery. Equally comfortable as a hands-on coder and technical lead, he has run his own engineering consultancy and delivered high-availability systems at the BBC and Linden Lab. Based in Worthing, UK, he’s recently been experimenting with locally hosted LLM workflows (Ollama) to bring practical AI capabilities into production-grade services.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Software Engineering, MSc, Software Engineering at University of Oxford
BA, Philosophy, BA, Philosophy at University of Leeds
English