David Denton

Versatile, hands-on Engineering Lead, specialising in architecting Continually Delivered platforms (<15 min lead time) using heavy automation & shift-left methods, driving high team throughput and reductions in time-to-market. Extensive experience working on high visibility projects in a broad variety of industries, and building the teams to deliver them effectively.
Firm believer in promoting collaborative, test-driven approaches to produce elegant, quality-driven solutions. Confident in clearly presenting complex concepts to a variety of audiences, from teaching to conference to board-level.

International Speaker & Kotlin community lead with a focus on Open Source, and co-creator of the popular http4k toolkit - featured for its testability focus in the ThoughtWorks TechRadar. Partner with SkillsMatter to deliver Kotlin Training. In late 2020, awarded a place into the Google Developer Expert programme.

Recently, adventurer into the Model Context Protocol, from perspectives of library author (the http4k MCP SDK), presenter and strategic advisor.