John Harrison
Technical Lead at Auto Trader UK
East Devon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Harrison is a Technical Lead with 18 years’ experience building data platforms and ML-enabled products, currently leading the team that develops Auto Trader UK’s cloud-based Data Lake, Warehouse and valuation services. He combines pragmatic engineering with coaching and product-focused delivery, translating complex marketplace questions into reliable, production-ready data systems. Comfortable marrying open-source tools with SaaS to balance efficiency, cost and sustainability, he has a background that spans research, Python development and platform architecture. Based in East Devon, he brings a hands-on, maker mentality—evident in DIY projects and logistical problem solving—that informs how he optimises resources and processes. Colleagues describe him as a builder who prefers demonstrable outcomes over jargon, with a knack for turning messy real-world data into valuable, maintainable insights.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at University of LiverpoolBSc, BSc at University of Wales, Swansea
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
oai-pmh10
oai10
python9
api8
api-client8
search-engine7
fastapi7
packaging7
installer7
pytest7
pip7
xml6
flask6
dockerfile6
docker6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
autotraderuk/fastapi-mlflow
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Deploy mlflow models as JSON APIs with minimal new code
Contributions:11 releases, 2 reviews, 38 commits in 1 year
apipythonjson-apismlopsfastapi
bloomonkey/oai-harvest
Feb 2013 - Jun 2021
Python package for harvesting records from OAI-PMH provider(s).
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 171 commits in 8 years 5 months
oai-pmh-providerpythonproviderrecordsharvesting
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