Chris Bellew
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolChris Bellew is a results-driven principal engineer with 15 years of experience architecting and delivering mission-critical, large-scale software systems, including scaling a unicorn payments platform 50x to $6B/year. He currently serves as Principal Engineer at Atlassian, guiding architectural and delivery excellence, after leading payments and risk engineering at VGW where he drove revenue optimization, payment-authorization improvements, and accumulated two years of engineering management experience. His focus is resilient, cloud-native systems built on Kubernetes, with an emphasis on event sourcing and event streaming across distributed architectures. He brings hands-on expertise across Rust, Node.js, JVM, Python, and Go, deep database know-how (Postgres, DynamoDB), and notable performance work like the Sub-7s One Billion Row Challenge in Java. In addition to production work, he has machine learning experience, including an object-detection model with 92% accuracy, and has contributed open-source tooling such as PGFerret for Postgres with Rust and eBPF. Based in Perth, Australia, he combines leadership with practical, incremental delivery and a track record of shipping reliable systems at scale.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Left after one year, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Left after one year at Loughborough UniversityCertified ScrumMaster, Certified ScrumMaster at Axis Agile ScrumMaster TrainingBachelor of Science (BSc), Software Engineering, Distinction, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Software Engineering, Distinction at Curtin University of Technology
English, Vietnamese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
tiles10
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python10
mapbox-gl10
geojson10
introspection10
oauth-210
concurrency10
javascript10
dotnet10
drawing10
editor10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisBellew/AlignedReID
Oct 2018 - Nov 2023
Alignedreid＋+: Dynamically Matching Local Information for Person Re-Identification.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
pytorchpersonmatchingre-identificationidentification
ChrisBellew/snowflake-prometheus-exporter
Aug 2020 - May 2021
A Prometheus exporter for Snowflake
Contributions:18 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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