Simon Smith
Engineering Leader at Meta
United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSimon Smith is an engineering leader with 10+ years of experience building high-performing teams and revenue-generating platforms, currently leading engineering at Meta after a long stint as Director of Engineering at J.P. Morgan. He combines deep technical fluency from a first-class Software Engineering degree with strong people leadership—coaching, mentoring, and empowering autonomous teams to deliver business-critical systems at scale. Skilled at driving technical transformation and modern platform initiatives, he thrives in complex, cross-functional, agile environments and negotiates effectively across senior stakeholders. Curious and always learning, he balances strategic influence with hands-on execution to turn challenging requirements into reliable, production-grade outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering (Bsc Hons), Computer Science, First class honours, Software Engineering (Bsc Hons), Computer Science, First class honours at The University of Glasgow
Github Skills (18)
search-engine10
java10
rest10
elasticsearch10
restful9
char5
disable3
chainer2
chromium1
language-detection1
macos1
frontend1
swig1
dfa1
languagetool1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ripjar/geek-night-machine-learning
Oct 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 6 years 10 months
ripjar/glove-python
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:32 pushes in 2 days
nlpstanford-nlpstanfordpythonpython-implementation
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