Tom Harris
Chief Technology Officer
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Harris is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over two decades of engineering experience delivering high-scale cloud and data platforms across fintech, e-commerce, and media. He has driven transformative growth at ClearBank—scaling revenues from £2m to £100m, building the first Embedded Banking proposition, and growing engineering from 10 to 310 people—while founding BuildCircle, a consultancy that reached £4m ARR. Equally comfortable in the boardroom and the codebase, he blends API engineering roots with strategic leadership, advising banks and investors on AI and platform strategy. Tom’s track record includes helping Just Eat reach IPO and FTSE100, modernising investment infrastructure at Seccl, and enabling major fintechs like Coinbase, Revolut and Monzo to scale on his platforms. He is skilled at embedding grassroots engineering change—shifting teams from infrequent releases to elite DORA performance in highly regulated environments. Based in the UK, he pairs hands-on delivery instincts with a knack for turning complex regulatory and operational constraints into competitive product advantages.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Software engineering games development Computing, Software engineering games development Computing at University of Brighton
Github Skills (52)
aws-services10
bus10
powershell10
microsoft9
migration9
dotnet-core9
aws9
azure9
message-bus9
arm9
arm-templates8
database-design8
mms8
twilio7
microsoft-azure7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tharris29/domSerializer
Apr 2014 - Jul 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 4 years 3 months
tharris29/tomharris.co.uk
Oct 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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