Simon Thulbourn is a Senior AI Engineer with 11 years building cloud-native, distributed systems and developer tooling across startups and large enterprises. Now at AWS, he combines hands-on engineering in Python, TypeScript and Go with operational leadership—having driven open source governance, threat modeling, and security guidance for Powertools for AWS Lambda. His background as a Specialist Solutions Architect and Serverless lead saw him shape developer experience, author best practices adopted by thousands, and design global architectures for customers from startups to Fortune 500s. He has deep platform experience from roles at Hailo and the BBC, migrating critical services to the cloud and modernizing CI/CD and developer workflows. Colleagues rely on him to anticipate project needs, unblock teams, and translate customer feedback into product roadmaps. Notably, he has a track record of creating internal initiatives and events that scale technical capability across organizations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at De Montfort University
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 57 commits in 1 year 7 months
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