Simon Rowland
Staff Software Engineer at Fetch.ai
Worthing, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon 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.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Software Engineering, MSc Software Engineering at University of OxfordBA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at University of Leeds
English
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Github Skills (3)
ai5
llm5
blockchain2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SCRowland/learning_experiments
Apr 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
SCRowland/advent-of-code-2019
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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