Simon Sparks
Co-Founder COO at Electric Sheep Studios
Dacorum, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorSimon Sparks is a serial entrepreneur and people-first operator with over a decade of experience building award-nominated games, creative businesses, and high-performance teams. As Co-Founder and COO of GameDataCore and founder of Thrival Coaching, he blends product strategy, people and talent systems, and emerging AI/LLM techniques to add an “emotional intelligence” layer to games and organisations. His background spans hands-on creative production—BAFTA-nominated work, a Cannes short film, and the world’s first fully interactive movie—to building People Roadmaps and talent infrastructure at fast-growing studios like Polystream and Mythical. A proven coach and board advisor, he designs values-driven hiring, leadership development, and data-informed people operations that scale from startup to post-Series B. Proudly dyslexic with ADHD, he leverages atypical thinking as a creative advantage in problem solving and culture design. Colleagues describe him as a rule-breaker who intentionally rethinks processes to leave teams and products in a better state than he found them.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (48)
graph10
terraform10
terraform-cloud9
docker-daemon9
validation9
hashicorp9
docker9
hcl9
vault9
declarative9
devops9
aws9
golang9
infrastructure-as-code9
terraform-module9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Sparks-Creative-Limited/angular-attach-if
Sep 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 5 months
SparksCreative/validator
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Simple validation for Rust structs
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
rustsanitizationvalidationstructs
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