Summary
Chris Swann is a Technical Manager at CoStar Group driving software delivery and team leadership since 2020. He uniquely blends 13 years of aerospace engineering with 8 years of Ruby and web development to build simple, scalable, and high-performance software. His expertise spans product design, UX, software architecture, and AWS/DevOps, with hands-on work in Ruby, JavaScript, MySQL, Redis, Sidekiq, and Docker. At Thales, he led software development efforts, applied JTBD-driven design frameworks in Agile environments, and provided technical field support for IFE systems at London Heathrow, including reliability analytics for in-flight products. Based in Irvine, California, he combines engineering rigor with cross-disciplinary training (HND and a degree in Audio Production) to bridge product, design, and delivery across complex systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
HND & Degree in Audio Production