Richard Harvey
NED And Chair Of The Risk Committee at Financial Services Compensation Scheme
Walton-on-Thames, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Harvey is an experienced non-executive director and chair with over 35 years in financial services, currently serving as NED and Chair of the Risk Committee at Funding Circle and on the boards of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and Money and Pensions Service. He spent two decades at HSBC leading global retail product strategy, digital transformation and risk/fraud oversight for multi-hundred-billion dollar businesses, and has prior CEO experience at GE Money and Barclaycard International. Richard combines board-level governance, risk management and product P&L accountability with hands-on delivery of large technology-enabled change programs, including AI/analytics and payments platforms. An active open-source enthusiast and tinkerer, he contributes DevOps expertise to projects like a Dockerized Nginx–PHP-FPM build and pursues eco-invention and 3D printing in his spare time. His background in English Literature underpins clear stakeholder communication and persuasive strategy articulation across complex, regulated organisations. Known for bridging executive strategy with practical engineering and operational detail, he brings both commercial rigour and curious, maker-minded problem solving to boards.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Esher Grammar/Esher CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Literature at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (15)
git10
container10
docker10
nginx10
devops10
php-fpm10
dockers10
docker-image10
php9
bash9
automations8
automation8
configuration-management8
amazon-eks6
kubernetes6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
richarvey/nginx-php-fpm
Jan 2015 - Nov 2022
Nginx and php-fpm for dockerhub builds
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:78 releases, 1 review, 409 commits in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on setting up and configuring the infrastructure for the Docker-based Nginx and PHP-FPM project. Their contributions include initial setup, performance tuning, and enhancing the build process. They also implemented environment variable population within the code, integration of Git for code deployment, and adjustments for PHP error handling and version details.
dockerhubnginxphp-fpmdockerdocker-image
richarvey/boinc
Aug 2015 - Mar 2022
Contributions:39 commits, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 8 months
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