Chris Waters
Senior Developer at Shopify
East Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Waters is a Senior Developer based in East Suffolk with ten years’ experience focused on Ruby on Rails and currently contributing at Shopify. He combines hands-on engineering with entrepreneurial product leadership, having co-founded and led CTO teams that built white‑label hotel booking platforms and reported product strategy to boards. His early career in copywriting and creative direction gives him a knack for clear product communication and usable interfaces, reflected in his preference for simple, low-friction changes. Comfortable in both startup and large-company environments, he also brings community and governance experience from board service at a regional theatre. Known for shipping pragmatic Rails systems that balance technical quality with real-world product needs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Thurleston High School
Github Skills (54)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
testing8
bootstrap7
rubymotion7
css7
file-uploads7
sinatra7
api7
rack7
mhealth6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
christhesoul/christhesoul.github.io
May 2016 - Nov 2024
Trumpet-blowing codestorm
Contributions:1 PR, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 7 months
javascript
christhesoul/marmalade
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:30 pushes in 5 months
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