David Garvey
Senior Staff Product Manager at Kong
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDavid Garvey is a senior product leader and hands-on technologist with 20+ years of experience shaping platform and solution architecture, API management, and cloud-native products. Based in Zurich, he has led global teams and scaled pre-sales-to-delivery practices across AMER, EMEA, and APAC while driving product R&D and innovation at companies like Tyk and now Kong. He blends deep technical rigor—having built reference architectures, automated integration tests, and proof-of-concept R&D—with strategic product work to align engineering, commercial, and go-to-market efforts. As a founder of Zumia and a frequent public-facing advocate via workshops and thought leadership, he surfaces practical use cases for emerging tech and LLM-driven tooling. Known for turning client feedback into roadmap differentiation, he thrives at the intersection of business and engineering to accelerate confident technical decisions and measurable outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The University of Salford
German
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Github Skills (37)
apim10
api-management10
kubernetes10
docker10
reverse-proxy10
tyk10
kubernetes-operator10
cicd10
kubernetes-deployment10
go10
api10
rest10
api-gateway10
tcp10
graphql10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TykTechnologies/tyk-demo
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Tyk Docker Demo with full Pro Tyk Installation and more!
Contributions:14 releases, 75 reviews, 603 commits in 2 years 7 months
dockertyk
davegarvey/tyk-demo
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Please use https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk-demo
Contributions:4 releases, 424 commits, 87 PRs in 2 months
tyk
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