Chris Harding
Director Of Software Development at Worldpay
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Harding is a strategic software leader and Director of Software Development in Cambridge with 12 years of industry experience building high-integrity, low-cost enterprise systems. He has grown and led multi-team engineering and QA organisations at Worldpay and Ocado Technology, aligning engineering autonomy to business outcomes and data-driven risk decisions. Deeply versed in test automation and virtualised environments, he has hands-on roots in C#, Python and system-level testing from significant contributions to projects like XenCenter/XenServer. Chris combines academic rigour—a PhD in Physical Chemistry—with pragmatic delivery, bringing scientific modelling habits to software quality and decision support. He hires for potential as well as skill and deliberately creates psychological safety to enable teams to invent robust solutions. An unexpected strength is his ability to translate complex warehouse-in-silico simulations and test frameworks into clear metrics that drive business decisions.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physical Chemistry, PhD Physical Chemistry at University of Nottingham
german (a2 level)
Github Skills (8)
nunit10
test-framework10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
test-automation10
asp-net9
net9
dotnet9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
xenserver/xenadmin
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
XenCenter, the Windows management console for XenServer
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the testing framework for the XenCenter management console. They added new test categories, specifically a "smoke test" category, and assigned existing tests to this category to ensure broad functionality coverage. The commits involved modifying existing test files, primarily in C#, to incorporate these categorization changes, improving the structure and coverage of XenCenter testing. Furthermore, the user removed some existing test files, streamlining the project.
windowsconsolewindows-servicexenserverwindows-forms
xapi-project/xen-api
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
The Xapi Project's XenAPI Server
Contributions:2 commits in 3 days
xenapixapi
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