Jon Simpson

I've built, sold, maintained and scaled cloud software-as-a-service products across the retail, finance and real estate sectors – to some of the largest retailers, financial institutions and real estate investors in the world. Along the way, I completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science involving the structure and design of highly parallel systems.

Now I'm building Duty Room – the compliance evidence platform for premises that get inspected.

Want to talk? jon@hey.com.

Work

Founder, Duty Room
2026 – present.
Co-founder & CTO, Altrio
Real estate investment management software. Toronto, 2020 – 2025.
Deputy CTO, FundApps
Compliance software for financial institutions. London, 2013 – 2019.
Co-founder & Technical Director, Retail Loop
Mobile, real-time software for retail shop floors. London, 2010 – 2013.

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Kent
2007 – 2012.

Publications

High Level Paradigms for the Structuring of Concurrent Systems
Ph.D. thesis, March 2012.
Runtimes, Robots and Clusters
Google TechTalk presented at Google, April 2007.
Mobile Robot Control: The Subsumption Architecture and occam-pi
Communicating Process Architectures 2006, September 2006.

Process-oriented Robotics
Invited Seminar at the University of Leicester, April 2010.
Toward Process Architectures for Behavioural Robotics
Communicating Process Architectures 2009, November 2009.
Safe Parallelism for Robotic Control
2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, November 2008.
Virtual Machine-based Debugging for occam-pi
Best Paper Award, Communicating Process Architectures 2008, September 2008.
Visual Process-oriented Programming for Robotics
Communicating Process Architectures 2008, September 2008.
Patterns for Programming in Parallel, Pedagogically
SIGCSE '08: 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer ScienceEducation, March 2008.
Native Transterpreter for the LEGO Mindstorms RCX
Communicating Process Architectures 2007, July 2007.