Christopher Imrie
Principal Engineer - MACH, Composable Commerce Digital Retail at Mindera
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristopher Imrie is a seasoned engineering leader and polyglot software engineer with 14+ years delivering secure, scalable web and commerce platforms. As Principal Engineer at Mindera, he guides architecture and strategy for MACH and composable commerce, helping retailers like Selfridges and Kingfisher transition to modern cloud-native architectures using tools such as Commercetools and Apollo GraphQL Federation. Previously, he built and led multi-brand e-commerce at Torque Brands, shaping an omnichannel platform designed to scale to $1B in annual revenue through AWS, IaC, event-driven microservices and rapid CI/CD. A hands-on technologist and former founder/CTO, he also led BidUpgrade’s real-time aviation auction stack and investor-facing technical strategy. Trained as an Aerospace Engineer, he brings rigorous systems thinking, reliability and DevOps discipline to leadership, product strategy and cross-functional teams in London. Based in the UK, he holds AWS and Elasticsearch certifications and has steered teams across global, nearshore and startup environments, from JWT London to Burberry, with a track record of delivering high-profile digital products and modern agile transformations.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Aerospace Engineering at University of BathInternational Baccalaureate (37 points), International Baccalaureate (37 points) at St Julians School, Portugal
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (25)
unobtrusive7
expressionengine6
react5
debug5
debugging5
api4
reactjs4
rest3
aws3
render3
prototyping3
cloud-infrastructure2
development-kit2
hypermedia2
chain1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Release-Gateway/aws-cdk-constructs
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Enterprise ready AWS CDK constructs that are standards compliant with the CIS 1.4, NIST 800-53 Rev5
Contributions:1 review, 19 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Release-Gateway/environment-identifier-action
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 months
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