Simon Wood
Chief Technology Officer at InsurEvo
Ashford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Wood is a seasoned technology leader and current Chief Technology Officer with over two decades of experience steering engineering teams through rapid growth, legacy migrations, and cloud transformations across AWS and GCP. He blends hands-on expertise in Node.js, React, microservices, API design and online payments with strategic oversight of data platforms and distributed systems. Known for pragmatic architecture and championing Lean/Agile practices, he has repeatedly delivered customer value while expanding teams and maintaining commercial partnerships. His career spans leadership roles from Head of Technology to Director of Software Engineering across travel and insurance-focused businesses, where he often drove platform modernisation and supplier integrations. Based in Ashford, UK, Simon is a vocal advocate that technology should simplify work, not complicate it, and he brings uncommon depth in payments and static site generation for consumer-facing platforms.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at University of Portsmouth
Github Skills (73)
cli9
command-line-tool9
api8
homebrew8
administration8
binaries8
rest-api7
json-api7
macos7
credit7
mosaic6
rest6
checker6
graphviz6
graphql-tools5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hpoom/Conference-Notes
Jun 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:88 commits, 49 pushes in 1 year 10 months
hpoom/hpoom.github.io
Apr 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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