Sion Smith

CTO @ OSO | Apache Kafka Expert | Helping Companies Build & Monetise Real-time Data Products

London, England, United Kingdom

About

Passionate about building secure event driven platforms using Kafka, helping businesses to extract value from their data in the most cost effective and agile way. Extensive 10+ experience in deploying large scale distributed systems which empower business workflows to make data driven decisions.

Experience

  • CTO and Co-Founder at OSO
    Aug 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 11 mos

    Providing professional services for all things Kafka!! OSO helps teams build event driven applications on Kafka to enable real-time access to your data and introduce meaningful innovations that drive business growth.

  • Member at Hampton
    Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

    Hampton is a dedicated community of high-growth founders.

  • Technical Principal Consultant at Contino - Enterprise DevOps and Cloud Transformation Consultancy
    Jun 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    WorldPay (November 2017 - September 2019): Technical Lead Enterprise Data Platform Delivery of a set of cloud native decision-based, data-driven services which use machine learning to help drive the most efficient processing throughout the transaction stream. Responsible for strategic advisory expertise around cloud operating model, reference cloud native architecture and roadmap development for cloud adaption at scale. Adidas (June 2017 – November 2017): Technical Lead of Digital Cloud Platforms Adidas are running a large, complex infrastructure on-premises and have initiated a full migration to AWS by the end of 2019. I was responsible for the advisory and delivery of Adidas Open Digital Platform initiative to enable this migration at scale.

  • DevOps Evangelist at HSBC Global Banking and Markets
    Jan 2017 - Jun 2017 · 6 mos

    Responsible for the automation, deployment and HA of developer tooling for 17,000 developers throughout the bank. Tasked with the challenge of installing a self-serve approach to deployment tools, remote build agents were configured on AWS via direct connect to dynamically expand capacity during peak build & deployment hours.

  • Lead DevOps / Big Data Solutions Architect at dataffirm
    Jul 2016 - Dec 2016 · 6 mos

    Design and delivery of a high availability big-data FinTech analytic engine on AWS across multiple availability zones and regions. Application ingests ~35gb of data per day from 1000s of data points, uses predictive algorithms running on Spark to calculate finance consensus on listed companies.