Dave Farley

Independent Software Developer and Consultant, Founder and Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.

United Kingdom

About

Dave Farley is a pioneer of Continuous Delivery, thought-leader and expert practitioner in CD, Devops, TDD and software development in general. Dave has been a programmer, software engineer and systems architect for many years, from the early days of modern computing, taking those fundamental principles of how computers and software work, and shaping ground-breaking, innovative approaches that have changed how we approach modern software development. Dave has challenged conventional thinking and lead teams to build world class software. Dave is co-author of the Jolt-award wining book - Continuous Delivery, and a popular conference speaker on Software Engineering. He built one of the world’s fastest financial exchanges, is a pioneer of BDD, an author of the Reactive Manifesto, and a winner of the Duke award for open source software with the LMAX Disruptor. Dave is passionate about helping development teams around the world improve the design, quality and reliability of their software, by sharing his expertise through his consultancy, YouTube channel, and training courses.

Experience

  • Founder and Director at Continuous Delivery Ltd
    Feb 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 6 mos

    Continuous Delivery Ltd. is a company founded to help organisations achieve their software ambitions, to release world-class software that will delight their users.

  • Developer at Getco LLC
    Apr 2012 - Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • LMAX Limited (5 yrs 4 mos)
    • Head of Software Development
      2007 - Apr 2012 · 5 yrs 4 mos

      LMAX is an offshoot of BetFair. We operate and continue to develop an ultra- high performance, low latency financial trading exchange which provides an internet accessible open orderbook on a variety of different asset classes to financial traders for the first time.

    • Head of Software Development
      2007 - 2009 · 2 yrs

      TradeFair are an offshoot of BetFair. We are aiming to build an ultra- high performance financial trading exchange and to provide internet access to finanical traders.

  • Director of Innovation at ThoughtWorks Ltd.
    Aug 2003 - Aug 2007 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Deputy to Chief Software Architect at Aspen Technology Inc
    2000 - 2003 · 3 yrs