Simon Whitear

Greater Chicago Area United States

Principal Engineer at Groupon

Finance / Banking / Insurance

Experienced architect and polyglot developer with a track record in delivering enterprise scale development initiatives. Wide ranging work experience dealing with multiple technologies across a range of architectural styles, including; big data analytics and machine learning, complex integration applications, high performance web stacks, distributed messaging and rich front end tooling. Real world experience leveraging multiple data platforms, from classic RDBMs, through column and array stores, to distributed NoSQL clusters and Hadoop. Significant experience building and running agile development teams using a philosophical approach to leadership with a particular focus on communication...