Guy Harrison
Author at O'Reilly Media
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolGuy Harrison is a veteran software leader, author, and founder with decades of experience building and commercializing database tools and cloud services. As founder and former CTO of Southbank Software he created dbKoda and ProvenDB, married MongoDB services with blockchain-backed immutability, and saw his work acquired by OneSpan. Previously he rose to VP of Software Engineering at Quest (and Executive Director at Dell during the acquisition), where he led 220+ engineers across four continents and guided a database tools portfolio that generated over $1B in revenue. He’s the author or co-author of multiple definitive database books—including CockroachDB and MongoDB titles—and writes regularly for Database Trends and Applications. Technically fluent from Oracle and MySQL tuning to modern stacks like Go, Kubernetes, GraphQL and Chainpoint, he blends product invention with hands-on architecture. Based in Melbourne, he describes himself as a “hopeless old geek,” a hint at both deep curiosity and ongoing involvement in emerging database technologies.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (50)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SouthbankSoftware/provendb-docker-compose
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Docker Compose to run ProvenDB services together
Contributions:36 commits, 4 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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SouthbankSoftware/provendb-oracle
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
Oracle connector for ProvenDB, adding Blockchain to the existing database.
Contributions:101 commits, 4 PRs, 56 pushes in 8 months
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