Adrian Harris
Lead Software Engineer at Starling
Pontarddulais, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdrian Harris is a Lead Software Engineer with nearly three decades of professional software experience and a proven track record delivering scalable, high-performance systems across government and financial sectors. He combines hands-on architecture and full SDLC delivery with technical leadership, having built and migrated greenfield and legacy services using serverless AWS, containerised Java platforms, and high-volume API designs. At organisations like Starling, DVLA and the ONS he has driven automation, CI/CD, code quality initiatives and performance-focused engineering practices while supporting 24/7 production services. He is comfortable translating complex requirements for both technical and non-technical stakeholders and has repeatedly grown team capability through mentoring, recruitment and structured upskilling. Based in Wales, he balances a pragmatic delivery mindset with strong principles around testing, automation and maintainability. An often-overlooked strength is his long experience in payments and compliance-conscious systems, which informs his disciplined approach to secure, auditable engineering.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Swansea University / Prifysgol AbertaweGCSE & A Level, GCSE & A Level at Borden Grammar School, Kent
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Github Skills (47)
elastic4s9
registers8
read-write8
data-retrieval7
sbt7
api7
algorithmia6
slave6
api-server5
scala5
retrieval5
admin4
nodejs4
statistics4
java4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ONSdigital/business-index-bulk-ui
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
User Interface to generate a file of bulk match or bulk query requests for submission to the business index bulk request service
Contributions:21 PRs, 19 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 6 months
queryapiuser-interfaceindexrequest
ONSdigital/es-algo-helloworld-java
Mar 2019 - Jun 2023
Helloworld Algorithmia algorithm in Java
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
javadata-structuresalgorithmia
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