David Buxton
Co-Founder at Harriet
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Buxton is a seasoned founder and product leader with 14 years of experience building risk, compliance and people-ops technology from London. As co-founder of Harriet he’s now focused on delivering a 24/7 AI-powered people ops assistant, after founding and scaling Arachnys into a market-leading customer risk and onboarding platform he led for over a decade. He pairs hands-on engineering chops—evidenced by back-end contributions to the open-source Cabot monitoring project—with strategic product leadership as former CPO at AML RightSource. Comfortable moving between startup scrappiness and enterprise-grade compliance requirements, he has a track record of turning complex regulatory problems into auditable, scalable solutions. His background in investigative consulting at Control Risks informs a pragmatic approach to risk data and integrations. Known for tinkering with open source and system integrations, he blends technical depth with operator instincts to ship defensible products.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Oxford
Github Skills (11)
e-mail10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
python10
django10
alerts9
devops9
alertview9
monitoring9
alertdialog9
alertifyjs9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arachnys/cabot
Jan 2014 - Jan 2021
Self-hosted, easily-deployable monitoring and alerts service - like a lightweight PagerDuty
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:254 commits, 71 PRs, 90 pushes in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Cabot monitoring and alerting service. Their commits focused on implementing features such as configurable email settings and improvements to the Jenkins integration, demonstrating an understanding of system configuration and integration. The changes involved modifications to the application's core files, indicating a significant role in the development of core features and functionality. They also made improvements to the UI for status checks.
pythondeployabledevopsdjangohosted
dbuxton/task-dashboard
Jan 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:47 commits in 3 months
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