Damon Hart-davis
Fellow At The Institute For Sustainability at University of Surrey
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDamon Hart-davis is an engineer, founder and sustainability researcher with 12+ years of hands-on experience building mission-critical systems for merchant and retail banking, alongside a long history of founding and running tech ventures and community services. Currently a Fellow at the Institute for Sustainability and a PhD candidate at University of Surrey focused on decarbonising UK home heating, he blends rigorous computer science training (MSc, The University of Edinburgh) with practical product delivery in low-carbon heating controls. He founded ExNet—one of the UK’s early ISPs—and runs the popular DHD Multimedia Gallery, a pro-bono image service that attracts millions of annual visitors while supporting other public services like NTP. Damon’s work emphasizes reliability and usability: from high-stakes financial systems to consumer-friendly heating controls (OpenTRV) that save carbon, money and improve health. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who enjoys “fun technology” and quietly sustains useful public infrastructure while pushing applied research into real-world climate impact.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Theoretical Computer Science, MSc, Theoretical Computer Science at The University of EdinburghDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Decarbonising UK home heating, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Decarbonising UK home heating at University of Surrey
Github Skills (169)
reed-solomon10
xor10
zopfli10
schema10
compressor10
compress10
encoder10
devtools10
minifier10
percentage10
jpeg-xl10
battery-level10
uncss10
des10
jpeg10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
DamonHD/reutils
Aug 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:33 releases, 335 commits, 343 pushes in 7 years 6 months
opentrv/OTAESGCM
Sep 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:25 releases, 141 commits, 112 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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