Chris Aitchison
General Manager - Product And Customer Platforms
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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SeniorChris Aitchison is a seasoned technology leader with 15 years of experience delivering customer-first digital banking and payments platforms, currently heading Product and Customer Platforms at Bendigo Bank. He helped build Up into Australia’s most-loved digital bank—shipping multiple times a day via automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and empowered, outcome-driven teams—and brings that people-first culture to enterprise banking. His background spans CTO and engineering leadership roles across fintech and consultancy, plus earlier expertise in enterprise content management and solution architecture. A former Australian Army servicemember, he blends operational discipline and resource management with product-led engineering. He focuses on secure, scalable online banking experiences that protect customer prosperity while enabling innovation. Less obvious: he often credits culture as the critical “secret sauce” that turns engineering practices into beloved products.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
4,656reputation
2.0mreached
104answers
6questions
sidekiq
top-5%
postgresql
top-5%
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (44)
git-repo10
file-icons10
utility10
postgresql9
libgit29
git-addons9
sidekiq9
elasticsearch-client9
ruby-on-rails9
html8
react8
android8
rails8
mvc8
ruby8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cmaitchison/git_diet
Oct 2011 - Dec 2021
When your git repo needs to lose some weight...
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 10 years 3 months
libgit2git-addonsutilitygit-repo
cmaitchison/rails_feature_switches
Mar 2011 - Mar 2011
Contributions:11 commits in 1 day
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