Simon Tate
Senior Manager, Indigo Principal Engineer at BT Group
Beaconsfield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Tate is a senior embedded software leader with 11 years’ experience driving CPE and gateway platforms across BT Group, currently serving as Senior Manager and Indigo Principal Engineer leading a ~50-person project powering BT/EE Wi-Fi 7 hubs and extenders. He blends hands-on embedded systems design, CI/CD for OpenWRT, and protocol work (including an MQTT plugin for TR-369/USP) with people leadership—having managed squads, product owners and built internal build tooling. Comfortable across firmware, networking and platform delivery, Simon has a track record of prioritising customer-impacting features and maintaining complex git-driven pipelines at scale. Early industrial control systems and secure networking work during a placement at Phillips 66 adds uncommon ICS/security perspective to his telecoms expertise.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) with DIS, Electronic and Computer Systems Engineering, 2:1, Master of Engineering (MEng) with DIS, Electronic and Computer Systems Engineering, 2:1 at Loughborough University
English
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Github Skills (66)
broker10
eclipse10
staging10
git-addons10
libwebsockets10
mosquitto10
git-hooks10
changelog10
openwrt10
javascript9
twitter9
ssl9
p5js9
rust8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SimonTate/dotfiles
May 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
SimonTate/ubus-rs
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
OpenWRT ubus client library in pure Rust
Contributions:10 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
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