Howard Durdle
Consultant IT Director at Uptake Strategies
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHoward Durdle is a Queen’s Award-winning fractional CIO, CTO and CISO with 12+ years of senior technology leadership and two decades of hands-on security and infrastructure experience across defence, fintech and SME sectors. He specialises in turning failing technology teams and legacy systems into secure, productive organisations through strategic planning, team building, audits and systems integration, often stepping into both boardroom strategy and hands-on delivery. A pragmatic small-"a" agilist, he combines technical mastery (MSc Information Security) with quiet negotiation and servant-leadership to grow capability and deliver measurable business impact. His background includes formal MOD and Microsoft engagements, leading global SaaS security and ISO 27001 programmes, and founding multiple startups, showing a mix of enterprise rigour and entrepreneurial grit. Outside work he’s a retro-computing and home-automation enthusiast—facts that underscore a lifelong curiosity about how systems work end-to-end. Always seeking the next challenge, he focuses on practical, secure solutions that help smart teams get stuff done.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Information Security, MSc Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of LondonBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of SurreyHenley Business School
klingon, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (83)
home-assistant-integration10
controlling10
garbage10
harmony9
notification-api9
notification-service9
notify9
logitech9
alerts9
notification8
pushbullet8
connected8
plates8
home-assistant8
reminder8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hdurdle/alexa-cats
Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
Node.js Web Service for Alexa Skill to say where cats are based on Sureflap data
Contributions:40 commits, 11 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 years 9 months
sureflapnode-jsjs-webjavascriptnodejs
hdurdle/MMM-BMWConnected
Jul 2019 - May 2022
Magic Mirror Module to display data from BMW Connected drive for your car.
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
bmwmagicconnectedhome-assistantcar
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