# Simon Vahr

> Deployed Software Engineer at Palantir

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/simonvahr

## Work Experience
### Deployed Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2019 – Present | London, England, United Kingdom
The FDSE role is a role that pairs software engineering with client interaction. To date, I have worked with three primary projects, relocating around the globe to support the needs of the business:

Cybersecurity - Middle East
- High scale, low-latency data pipelines (Petabyte scale) using Spark
- Cybersecurity detection tooling, resulting in patents: EP3800568A1 and EP3798880A1
- Cybersecurity investigative applications and workflows using Typescript/React

Mechanical Reliability Engineering - Sydney, Australia
- High scale timeseries workflows, based on mechanical engineering sensor data
- Close iteration with customer's management and end-user engineers, to meet their needs
- Management of a small team (5-10 people)

Healthcare and Insurance - Tokyo, Japan
- Lead engineer across all projects with a large client
- Designing and implementing a medical data platform to support eldercare providers nationwide
- Worked with central product teams on core infrastructure to improve stability and speed
- Leadership of a medium-sized team (10+ people)

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Vancouver, Canada
Working in the Conversational AI (AI Core) team in the Artificial Intelligence and Research group (AI&R). 

- Worked on a conversational bot authoring platform and runtime, including an actions suggestions feature, where botlets could suggest other botlets to take over the control flow at any given time, using a common knowledge graph and ontology

- Worked closely with data scientists and linguists on an offline metrics experimentation platform to assess product conversation quality from end-to-end, to support data-driven iteration.
- Personal contributions included planning and architecture phases, making key design and structural decisions, as well as owning the implementation itself.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Redmond, WA
Summer intern in the High Availability and Disaster Recovery group, under Data Platforms, in the Cloud and Enterprise organisation.

### Intern @ Metaswitch Networks
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Intern @ The Peres Center for Peace
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Jaffa, Israel


## Education
### Honours Bachelor's Degree in Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science
The University of Edinburgh

### IB Diploma
International School of Brussels


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/simon-vahr

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Last updated: 2026-03-30