Ed Harrod
CTO, Co-Founder at Storra
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEd Harrod is a pragmatic engineering leader and two-time technical co-founder with nine years of experience building resilient backend systems across fintech, identity, and crypto. Based in London, he has led backend Go standards, CI/CD and AI/Open Source initiatives at Luno and now builds product-led social impact platforms at Givr and Storra that blend fundraising, creator storytelling and brand partnerships. His hands-on background spans microservices, event-driven architectures, fraud/AML detection and multi-language SDKs, and he routinely mentors teams on technical design and delivery. Beyond code, he champions diversity, ethics and community outreach (running CoderDojo and internal allies networks), bringing a rare combination of startup grit, operational rigor and social purpose to technical product strategy.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at The University of EdinburghHymers College
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Github Skills (200)
dependabot10
testing10
digital-signature10
state-machine10
serverless10
wkhtmltopdf10
idempotent10
github-app10
api10
microservice-framework10
bitbucket10
php10
complexity10
geth10
python10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
getyoti/yoti-sign-examples
May 2020 - Jul 2022
Yoti Sign examples
Contributions:8 reviews, 20 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 2 months
signyoti
danger/golang
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
⚠️ Stop saying "you forgot to …" in code review
Contributions:3 releases, 4 reviews, 27 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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