David Harvey
Markets Technology (EFS Business Response) London Team Lead at Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Harvey is a seasoned technology leader and software architect with over two decades of experience spanning startups and global banks, now leading Markets Technology (EFS Business Response) in London. He has served as CTO for multiple media and music-led ventures (Sibelius, Vyclone, Tido) and later scaled into cloud strategy, product delivery, and tooling leadership at DXC/Virtual Clarity. Known for combining agile product management with deep architecture and infrastructure expertise, he moves comfortably between hands-on technical design and strategic leadership in organisations from single-digit teams to 50,000+. His background uniquely blends music and technology—he has led academic digital product programmes and shipped consumer media platforms—bringing a user-focused sensibility to complex financial systems. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, negotiating trade-offs, and translating strategic goals into implementable architectures.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MA, D.,Phil, MA, D.,Phil at University of OxfordARCM (Hons), ARCM (Hons) at ARCM
german, french
Github Skills (24)
e-mail9
kotlin8
test-framework8
junit8
java8
stubs8
sinon8
unit-testing7
codewars7
junit-jupiter7
tdd7
kotlin-testing6
junit-vintage6
javascript6
testing6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tido/plgToMSS
Feb 2015 - Feb 2017
Improve development experience for Sibelius plugins
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 11 months
sibelius
davethehat/botx
Feb 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 8 months
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