David Haikney
Technical Product Director at Arm
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Haikney is a seasoned technical product director with 12+ years of experience leading engineering, support and customer-facing teams across startups and large multinationals. He has a track record of delivering high-performance, enterprise-grade systems—from performance optimisation at Arm to building global support and solution-engineering organisations at Couchbase and Pinecone. Comfortable switching between hands-on technical analysis and strategic product delivery, he focuses on efficiency, clear communication and measurable outcomes. David has repeatedly scaled remote, cross-functional teams and driven measurable performance wins (including significant optimisation work earlier in his career that contributed to an acquisition). Based in Manchester with a first-class Computer Science degree, he combines pragmatic delivery instincts with deep experience in resilient connectivity, distributed databases and customer success.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Royal High School, EdinburghBSc (Hons) First Class Computer Science w/ Industrial Experience, BSc (Hons) First Class Computer Science w/ Industrial Experience at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (50)
couchbase10
vms9
vagrantfile9
server9
virtualbox9
database8
sql8
nosql7
cgi7
couchdb7
benchmark7
benchmarking7
ansible7
vagrant7
documentation6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
couchbaselabs/stock-exchange
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:41 commits in 3 months
couchbaselabs/google_compute_benchmark
Jan 2015 - Jan 2019
Couchbase Google Compute Benchmarking
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 1 month
benchmarkinggoogle-computecouchbasebenchmarkcompute
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