Simon Hughes

Chief Technology Officer and Software Architect in UK

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Solution architect and senior software engineer. I like to make fast, scalable things — mostly C# and SQL Server, on AWS and Azure.

I work AI-first. Claude Code is in my daily loop across architecture, implementation and review, and I recently built an MCP server so an agent could drive and operate a hardware simulator directly. I'm as interested in where that genuinely helps as in where it shouldn't be trusted.

Some things I've made faster or fixed: an 8,000% database write improvement, a 60x gain in scanner data processing, a 90% cut in a client's cloud bill, and a warehouse platform adopted by 97% of new customers across 250+ European sites. I've been a CTO, and I'm the named inventor on a UK patent for EV charging.

I work across energy and EV charging, fintech and blockchain, logistics, and regulated billing systems.

Pluralsight and Packt author, and I maintain the Entity Framework Reverse POCO Generator. I enjoy teaching.

I love photography and woodworking in my downtime.

Email: [email protected]