About

I’m Simon Griffiths, an enterprise architect and VP at Oracle, where I spend most of my time working with customers on large-scale AI, data, and business challenges. Before Oracle, I was Chief Architect at BT and Global Head of Business Analytics at Vodafone. My earlier career was as a developer and software architect, and data — how organisations collect it, use it, and manage it — has been the constant thread running through all of it.

I still write code whenever I get the chance, and over the last couple of years I’ve turned most of that energy towards AI and data working together.

By education I’m actually a musician. I started as a cellist, and I now sing with my local chamber choir, which keeps me honest about the difference between things that sound technically correct and things that actually work.

This site is where I write about the things I think about most: data architecture, AI, and digital trust. Some of it is fairly technical. Some of it — the Friday Coffee posts — is lighter: technology as I actually experience it, the rate of change, and what it means to have been in this industry since 1985.

The Digital Safety Series is an attempt to write about practical personal security for normal people — not enterprise professionals, not people who have already made a serious mistake, just ordinary people trying to make sense of a digital life that got complicated quietly.

Everything here is my own view and does not represent the positions of my employer.

You can reach me at simon.j.griffiths@gmail.com .