Chris Armstrong
Staff Engineer at Relevance AI
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolChris Armstrong is a Staff/Principal engineer with 16 years of experience building full-stack TypeScript/JavaScript applications and serverless AWS platforms, currently focused on lifting developer velocity and architecture at Relevance AI (formerly Honey Insurance). He combines hands-on delivery—working across React front-ends, Node.js backends, CI/CD and CloudFormation—with leadership in shaping product-aligned architectural roadmaps and removing platform bottlenecks. Chris has a track record of shipping automation and cost-optimisation solutions at GorillaStack and embedding DevOps and diagnostics into team workflows to improve quality and iteration speed. Comfortable in both Agile and traditional environments, he’s delivered across industries from insurance to communications and retail, often owning cross-cutting technical decisions. An avid polyglot and OCaml community contributor (author of smaws, an AWS SDK for OCaml), he brings curiosity and tooling craftsmanship that often surfaces behind-the-scenes developer productivity gains. Based in Sydney, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an eye for detail in solving complex system design problems.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) / Diploma Engineering Practice, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) / Diploma Engineering Practice, Software Engineering at University of Technology Sydney
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Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
distributed-tracing10
swagger10
axios10
specification10
monitoring10
opam10
javascript10
package-repository10
codegen10
amazon-dynamodb10
documented10
directives10
api10
dynamodb10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
chris-armstrong/rescript-aws-sdk-v3-wrapper
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
ReScript bindings for the AWS SDK V3
Contributions:2 reviews, 30 commits, 3 PRs in 7 months
aws-sdksdkrescript-bindingsawsrescript
chris-armstrong/dynamodb-size-js
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Calculate DynamoDB object size
Contributions:25 commits, 9 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 6 months
amazon-dynamodbobject-sizedynamodbawscalculate
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