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Christopher William Walker
Senior Software Engineer
Postal Address | 21 Millway, Bradninch, Exeter, EX5 4RB | Telephone | +44 (0)7714 252 682 |
chris@thechriswalker.net | Github | github.com/thechriswalker |
About Chris
An experienced Software Engineer and Systems Administrator — I love solving problems.
Strong backend skills, but understand the needs of frontend code. I can managed the platform layer, designing infrastructure using IaaC methodologies (e.g. terraform, CloudFormation) and monitoring/alerting capabilities for observability, both operational insights (metrics) and site reliability (status monitoring and automated failover).
I have experience designing systems from the ground up and working with existing codebases, but also in the processes to migrate legacy systems to a modern stack. I can read codebases and gain the understanding to implement new features or migrate business logic.
I have worked with many technologies, including but not limited to:
- the "Web" (HTML/CSS/JS)
- relational/NoSQL/Graph databases (PSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Titan, Cayley)
- language runtimes (Javascript/NodeJS, Typescript/Deno, Golang, Java, Perl, PHP)
- modern web frontend stacks/bundlers (React, PWAs, Webpack, Vite, esbuild)
- data pipelines for realtime event processing (Kafka, SNS), job queuing (SQS) and batch processing
- application containerisation and orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
My Information Security Masters final project focused on the use of blockchain technologies to reduce trust requirements in large scale electronic voting. This work broadened my knowledge of and cemented my interest in cryptography and its use in software security.
Projects I have worked with have had locale awareness requirements and I understand the importance and complexity of building localisation and internationalisation into software systems.
In summary: I am a highly motivated, well experienced, widely skilled, security focused, operations capable, software developer.
Employment
2018-03 ⟶ 2022-11 Move Technologies |
Senior Software Engineer / Infrastructure and Operations
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2014-01 ⟶ 2018-03 Arago GmbH |
Software Engineer
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2013-01 ⟶ 2014-01 TripleSoda Ltd. |
Software Engineer / DevOps
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2012-03 ⟶ 2013-01 FantasyShopper Ltd. www.fantasyshopper.com (dead link) |
Software Engineer / DevOps
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2008-06 ⟶ 2012-03 WiFiSpark Ltd. |
Software Engineer / DevOps
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Previously |
Misc. Less/Non-Technical Positions |
Education
2017 ⟶ 2021 |
Royal Holloway, University of London London GCHQ accredited MSc Information Security (Distinction) |
1999 ⟶ 2002 |
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine London 2nd Class Honours BSc in Mathematics |
1992 ⟶ 1999 |
Haileybury College Hertfordshire
1999: 3 A-levels, 1 STEP Level |
References
Available on request as required.