Simon Scoltock

Simon Scoltock has over 20 years of work experience in various roles in the technology industry. Currently, they are the Director of Technology at Simple Machines since 2021. Before that, they worked at Telstra from 2016 to 2021, where they held positions such as Software Engineering - Senior Lead, Data Exchange, Platform Development Lead, and Data Architecture, Senior Manager. Simon also had a brief stint at Cognevo as a Data Architecture, Senior Manager in 2016. Prior to that, they worked at Wynyard Group as a Data Architecture, Senior Manager from 2015 to 2016. Simon's earlier work experience includes roles at Tait Communications, E-What? Ltd, International Antarctic Center, Adventure Specialties Trust, Natcoll Design Technology, and Artisan Group Ltd, where they held positions ranging from Lead Design Engineer to Programmer/Analyst.

Simon Scoltock obtained an Advanced Certificate in Business Computing from Unitec | Te Pūkenga in the year 1995. In addition, they have obtained various certifications including Fundamentals of Lakehouse Architecture from Databricks in 2021, Kubernetes on the Cloud from Udemy in 2019, Elasticsearch Engineer I and Elasticsearch Engineer II from Elastic in 2018, Hadoop Platform and Application Framework from Coursera Course Certificates in 2016, Introduction to Big Data from Coursera Course Certificates in 2015, R Programming from Coursera Verified Certificates and Coursera Course Certificates in 2015, and The Data Scientist’s Toolbox from Coursera Verified Certificates and Coursera Course Certificates in 2015.