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David Haikney

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Technical Product Director at Arm
📍 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

David is a Technical Product Director at Arm with extensive experience in the entire product lifecycle, from development to customer support. He has a proven track record in both startups and large corporations, focusing on performance analysis and optimization. He earned a First Class Honours BSc from The University of Manchester.

He holds multiple patents, including one for a method that reduces workload on storage systems by determining if data requires compression before being stored.

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Experience
24 Years
Current Role
Technical Product Director
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Priorities

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AI Performance Analysis
He is actively speaking at events like the Ubuntu Summit about using LLM reasoning combined with Arm's telemetry for high-quality performance analysis.
Customer-Focused Engineering
His career includes multiple VP-level roles in customer experience, field engineering, and support at companies like Ditto, Pinecone, and Couchbase.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Technical Product Director
Arm
10-2024 - 12-2025
VP, Customer Experience
Ditto
9-2023 - 9-2024
VP, Field Engineering
Pinecone
8-2019 - 9-2023
VP Customer Support
Couchbase
8-2018 - 8-2019
Senior Director Of Engineering
Couchbase
In the press

Media appearances

Prairie Session 4 – David Haikney (Technical Product Director, Arm). Featured in YouTube
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Education
1997 - 2001
BSc (Hons) First Class
The University of Manchester
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Royal High School, Edinburgh
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