David Walker
Interim CTO CDO Programme Director at Various Companies, SMEs & Start-ups
Glastonbury, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Walker is an executive technology leader and interim CTO/CDO with 14+ years of senior experience and a career-long, hands-on mastery of data and database technologies. He has led and delivered enterprise-grade data platforms and Big Data solutions across sectors—from Worldpay and Network Rail to fintechs and public services—combining board-level strategy with deep technical execution. Comfortable in startups and large organisations alike, he scales teams and architectures, having designed PCI-compliant Hadoop deployments, hybrid cloud OLTP platforms, and migrated mission-critical database workloads. As EMEA Field CTO for a web-scale OLTP database vendor he helped launch regional operations and translate distributed-database innovations into pragmatic enterprise adoption. Known for unusually deep insight into how data models, databases and analytics drive business outcomes, he also brings experience as an expert witness and pragmatic vendor/customer perspective. Based in Glastonbury and trained in mathematics, he pairs analytical rigour with a proven track record of turning complex data needs into delivered, auditable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Mathmatics, BSc Mathmatics at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddChrist College, Brecon
English
Github Skills (44)
sql9
database9
high-performance9
cpp9
k3d8
sql-database8
k8s8
scale-out8
databases8
kubernetes8
k3s7
random-generation7
paxos7
facebook-data7
yugabytedb7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
datamgmt/bind9
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
Mirror of https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9, please submit issues and PR/MRs in the GitLab.
Contributions:33 pushes in 1 month
bind9gitlabsubmitiscmrs
datamgmt/Music-Chart-Downloader
May 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 comments, 1 issue in 3 months
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