Piers Harding
Platform Software Architect
United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorPiers Harding is a Platform Software Architect with over 35 years in IT and 17 years focused on platform, cloud-native and DevOps engineering, currently shaping platform and software delivery for the SKA Observatory. He designs large-scale, high-performance science processing platforms—championing Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack and AWS—and led the Log-Based Architecture for SKA’s Science Data Processor. His background spans industry domains from telecommunications and petrochemicals to education and finance, with deep experience in IAM, analytics, SAP integration and ERP migrations. A long-time open source contributor, he has integrated R and other languages with SAP and contributed to Moodle and Mahara, reflecting a practical blend of research-grade systems and enterprise operations. Notably, he combines hands-on systems design with SAFe systems leadership and platform security stewardship, ensuring quality across development pipelines and operational delivery.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
moodle10
edtech10
twitter10
lms10
sap-rfc10
kubernetes10
storage10
go10
mahara10
portal10
openid10
docker10
ssl10
learning-management-system10
elearning10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
piersharding/dplyrimpaladb
Sep 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 5 months
connectordplyr
piersharding/moodle-auth_saml
Mar 2011 - Sep 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 3 years 7 months
samlmoodleauthentication2-x
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