Ian Harvey
Director Of Software Engineering at SIMBA Chain
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Harvey is a director-level software engineering leader with 15+ years’ experience building interdisciplinary research and production systems, currently leading engineering at SIMBA Chain. He blends hands-on backend expertise in Python/Django, PostgreSQL/PostGIS and Java with cloud, workflow engines and machine-learning integration from projects spanning social sciences, humanities and medicine. At Cardiff University he led the WISERD DataPortal and the Lost Visions project, delivering large-scale searchable archives and public-facing data tools used by government and national services. Ian is comfortable representing technical work to non-technical stakeholders and has extensive experience in public speaking, research dissemination and cross-institution collaboration. He also brings startup and consultancy experience as a founding Integration Architect at ViaVM, pairing product-minded thinking with rigorous software design. Based in Cardiff, he is known for turning complex, multi-disciplinary research requirements into robust, production-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
Github Skills (66)
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api8
ckan8
catalog8
publish8
structured-data8
pyodbc8
rdf8
open-data8
metadata7
iso7
dms7
odbc7
python7
dbpedia7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SIMBAChain/PyLibSIMBA
Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 6 PRs in 3 years
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