Based in Kent, Simon is a passionate tech/geek. Over the past 17 years he has progressed through the roles of Developer, Systems Architect, Head of Technology, and is currently Associate Director of Architecture & Engineering at Holiday Extras, a travel technology company where he has worked for the last 10 years. Simon's day-to-day role sees him driving the technology strategy at Holiday Extras and leading an ever growing engineering team. This position, in recent years, has involved moving into new areas such as AWS Cloud, Node.js, Web Applications and API Architecture and Development as well as championing Lean, Agile and Kanban methodologies. Simon is very vocal that technology should make our lives easier not harder.