Transforming tech teams as a Fractional Engineering and Operations Leader

🔓 Unlock your tech team

🧑‍💻 Align engineering with business

📈 Get to product and profitability faster

⏱️ Reclaim your time to focus on the business

Simon helps tech companies get to product and profitability faster by getting engineering teams unstuck and aligning teams, strategies, and business goals.

  • Simon brings a leadership quality that transcends his technical background, cutting through distractions in a way that has helped keep us on track more times than I can count.

    Robert Coverdale

  • Simon excels at transferring knowledge with peers, colleagues and executive leaders. Simon systematically demonstrates respectful honesty, accountability and ownership.

    Luc Trimouille

  • Simon has led multiple initiatives that improved our engineering processes, allowed us to utilise public cloud more often and also worked towards a greater working environment.

    Alan Oprawko

Services I deliver

Imagine having someone who can remove the engineering leadership and operations workload from your busy shoulders.

Someone who can get your engineering team aligned, focused and back on track.

Someone who can get you delivering more with your existing resources, and also grow your team to accelerate.

Someone who ensures alignment with the business goals while building a culture of excellence.

That's me!

  • Directly lead and manage engineering teams (and teams of teams), including hiring, onboarding, and mentoring.

    Provide support for the career development and performance management of engineers.

    Ensure the engineering teams are healthy, productive, and high-performing.

    Lead engineering hiring, recruitment processes, and onboarding.

    Oversee team budget and resource allocation.

  • Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

    Define engineering best practices and ensure they are followed.

    Change management and organisational restructuring.

    Implement scalable processes and define SOPs.

    Set visible health metrics and KPIs.

  • Communicate technical direction and strategy to stakeholders, including senior leadership and non-technical teams.

    Lead technology strategy and make decisions on technical architecture and tools.

    Advise on integrating emerging technologies like Web3, AI, and blockchain.

    Innovation strategy and competitive positioning.

  • Product roadmap planning and alignment with business objectives.

    Setting and prioritising specifications for new features and initiatives.

    Aligning technical, product, and design teams to meet project deadlines.

    Collaborate with various teams, including product, design, and other departments, to ensure the successful execution of projects.

Driven by a passion for innovation, I've gained a reputation as a trusted technical leader who connects all aspects of business.

Engagement styles

I am available to work in different modes to deliver results for you, regardless of scope and budget

Advisory retainers

Quickly remove roadblocks and gain clarity with 1:1 or 1:team advisory and coaching calls.

Project-based consulting

Need help shaping or upskilling your existing team? A fixed project engagement might be right for you.

Embedded leadership

I join you on a long-term fractional basis, as a fully accountable member of the leadership team.

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