Channing Walton
Senior Software Engineer at Patchwork Health
Woking, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChanning Walton is a Senior Software Engineer and seasoned Scala specialist with over three decades of experience in software architecture, development and team leadership across media, financial markets, banking, gambling and research. He has a strong track record of rescuing and delivering complex systems using agile methods—most notably driving major improvements in banking onboarding, low-latency trading and cleared derivatives platforms. A founding partner of Underscore Consulting and a member of Equal Experts, Channing blends hands-on implementation (Scala, http4s, cats-effect, doobie, Postgres, AWS) with pragmatic client-facing delivery for difficult, high-stakes problems. He regularly speaks on Scala and agile topics and has repeatedly built multi-tenant, high-throughput streaming and entitlement systems for broadcasters and sports-odds platforms. With a PhD in Optical Communications and early research background in laser and atmospheric measurement, he brings rare scientific rigour to distributed systems and performance engineering.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Optical Communications, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Optical Communications at University of Kent
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
channingwalton/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:403 pushes in 5 years 3 months
channingwalton/doobie-play
May 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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