Simone Conte holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of St Andrews and an MSc in Mathematics from Heriot-Watt University. He is a trustee at The Edinburgh Remakery, a charity focused on reducing waste by providing repair and reuse services and training to communities.

With over a decade of experience in designing high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems, Simone specialises in building reliable software, reproducible processes, and optimisation algorithms. His most recent work has focused on data linkage, applying machine learning to enterprise problems, and optimising simulations for CO2 reduction.