Daniel Vaughan

Daniel Vaughan

London, England, United Kingdom
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With 25 years of hands-on experience across enterprise, start-up, and academic…

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  • Google is Back @ Google Cloud Summit 2025

    Another year, another #GoogleCloudSummitLondon, and it's interesting to compare how my thoughts have evolved over the…

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  • Charles Handy's Wisdom Lives On

    It's been about 20 years since I first stumbled upon Charles Handy's work, picking up The Empty Raincoat from a…

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  • AI Summit London 2025

    It's a familiar scenario: a CEO declares, "We need to do AI!" and the responses vary. Sometimes a CTO asks for…

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  • Agentic and Human-Centric - Two Models of AI Automation from the Mini Factory

    If you need help imagining how AI will impact work, especially software development, visit the Mini Factory in Oxford…

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  • My Windsurf Experience

    Monday was a holiday in the UK, so I decided to spend a couple of hours with Windsurf and an enterprise licence kindly…

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  • Building with AI: Why Individual Developers Have an Early Advantage

    In 2009, the air in the mobile industry felt charged. It was a battleground, and as a conference speaker declared…

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  • Why "Good Enough" AI Will Win

    When I first got a digital camera, my friend who was into photography told me, "Of course, a digital camera is not a…

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  • CNCF: Driving Innovation or Fuelling Complexity?

    At KubeCon London, the sticker wall, representing every CNCF project, always had a queue of attendees keen to complete…

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  • Where are we really with GenAI?

    Today is my 48th birthday, but what made me feel old was a post on LinkedIn by my former boss, Alan Flower . He had…

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  • Kubernetes Community Days London

    In 2019, I started working at HCL Cloud Native Labs in London. We were strong supporters of the Cloud Native Computing…

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    London, England, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    Cambridge, United Kingdom

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    Cambridge, United Kingdom

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    Cirencester, United Kingdom

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    Exeter, United Kingdom

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    Chippenham, United Kingdom

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    Bristol, United Kingdom

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    Salisbury, UK

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    Bromley, United Kingdom

Education

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Trainer

    Code Club Pro

    - Present 10 years 8 months

    Education

Publications

  • An HCL Cloud Native Labs Perspective on Application Moderisation

    HCL

    An established enterprise will make the vast majority of its revenue using existing systems. So, it makes perfect sense to spend 95% of the IT budget on maintaining those systems, leaving as little as 5% to invest in new technology and innovation. Therefore, the emphasis of enterprises is often a lot more towards how to modernise the existing estate rather than building greenfield applications as there may be in a start-up. This approach makes sense as going faster, saving money or doing more…

    An established enterprise will make the vast majority of its revenue using existing systems. So, it makes perfect sense to spend 95% of the IT budget on maintaining those systems, leaving as little as 5% to invest in new technology and innovation. Therefore, the emphasis of enterprises is often a lot more towards how to modernise the existing estate rather than building greenfield applications as there may be in a start-up. This approach makes sense as going faster, saving money or doing more can all apply to existing applications.

    The journey to application modernization is simpler said than done. It’s not an easy task to optimize the performance for an array of internal and external applications, especially when there’s a mixture of cloud and legacy workloads that connect and intersect. In this whitepaper, HCL Cloud Natives Labs is sharing their perspective on application modernization and looks at three specific software development patterns to modernize existing applications.

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  • IBM Developer Tooling for OpenShift in 2020

    HCL

    The future of global enterprises is dominated by the needs of a digital economy. This requires leaders to empower software-enabled solutions, digital product innovation, and digital services in order to maintain their competitive edge. The rise of IBM’s hybrid cloud offerings combined with Red Hat’s open source capabilities now offers organisations a means to drive agile and scalable solutions using OpenShift’s containerisation platform. This whitepaper helps IT leaders understand the value of…

    The future of global enterprises is dominated by the needs of a digital economy. This requires leaders to empower software-enabled solutions, digital product innovation, and digital services in order to maintain their competitive edge. The rise of IBM’s hybrid cloud offerings combined with Red Hat’s open source capabilities now offers organisations a means to drive agile and scalable solutions using OpenShift’s containerisation platform. This whitepaper helps IT leaders understand the value of this shift, while updating IBM developers with rich insights into the tooling options that they now have at their disposal.

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  • Ext GWT 2.0: Beginner's Guide

    Packt

    This is a hands-on beginner's guide that builds a complete Ext GWT application through the book visiting a new set of features in each chapter. You will learn the entire range of features available in the Ext GWT library. At every point you will be given practical examples and techniques that can easily be adapted for your own applications. If you are a Java developer aspiring to build intuitive web applications with Ext GWT, then this book is for you. It assumes that you are familiar with HTML…

    This is a hands-on beginner's guide that builds a complete Ext GWT application through the book visiting a new set of features in each chapter. You will learn the entire range of features available in the Ext GWT library. At every point you will be given practical examples and techniques that can easily be adapted for your own applications. If you are a Java developer aspiring to build intuitive web applications with Ext GWT, then this book is for you. It assumes that you are familiar with HTML and CSS. Developers who wish to add an RIA look to their existing GWT applications with Ext GWT will find this book extremely useful.

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Languages

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

  • Mandarin

    Elementary proficiency

Organizations

  • Green Software Foundation

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  • Cambridge Developers' User Group (CAMDUG)

    Event Organizer (Education)

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    Meetup group for software developers in Cambridge focused on sharing knowledge and interests and building a community. My particular interest is in organizing events to learn new languages and frameworks.

  • Cambridge Software Craftmanship

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    A really useful meetup to discuss software development best practice and try out new techniques. We meet twice per month. The first meeting is a round-table discussion of software craftsmanship related topics the second a hands on session typically learning a new technique.

  • Cambridge Speakers Club (Toastmasters)

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    My local Toastmasters club where I achieve my competent communicator award. I am currently working on the advanced technical presentations manual. I am really grateful to toastmasters for turning me into a confident presenter and now pass my experience on to others in the club whenever I can.

  • EMBL-EBI Technical Seminars Programme

    Technical Seminars Coordinator

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    In 2014 I started a campus Meetup group aimed at bringing software developers together to learn about tools, techniques and technologies and to raise the profile and sustainability of software development. In late 2015 this was adopted as the EMBL-EBI Technical Seminars Programme with its own budget and now has over 400 members. I have been supported in organising talks and workshops from leaders in the software industry and enable collaboration amongst developers across campus by creating…

    In 2014 I started a campus Meetup group aimed at bringing software developers together to learn about tools, techniques and technologies and to raise the profile and sustainability of software development. In late 2015 this was adopted as the EMBL-EBI Technical Seminars Programme with its own budget and now has over 400 members. I have been supported in organising talks and workshops from leaders in the software industry and enable collaboration amongst developers across campus by creating communities of practice. As collaboration has increased common needs have been identified, and we increasingly seek to focus on sharing the knowledge and expertise we have across the organisation.

  • Bristol Google Technology User Group (GTUG)

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    I founded the Bristol GTUG for anyone interesting in any of the Google Technologies. The objective was to enable developers to share information, knowledge and experience with others both online and through regular meet-ups in the Bristol area.

  • Mandarin in Bath

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    I was keen to learn Mandarin in a group but there were no classes in Bath. I hired a teacher, a venue and created my own. This proved very popular and over the year or so it was running taught over 100 students at three different levels. Later we also organised courses in calligraphy and Chinese business practice.

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