Summary
Chris Bailey is a Senior Software Developer in Ottawa with 11 years of hands-on full-stack experience designing and shipping scalable, mission-driven SaaS systems for healthcare. He specializes in Java, Spring, AWS, and microservices, and has a track record of cutting costs and accelerating delivery—migrating libraries to open-source to save $20K/year, slashing OpenSearch spend by ~87%, and building a one-click CI/CD pipeline to enable continuous deployment. Comfortable from cloud infra to frontend, he leads end-to-end module design from requirements through release and values concepts over specific tools. Motivated by personal experiences with healthcare, he focuses on patient safety platforms and performance-driven engineering. Outside work he brings disciplined curiosity to problem-solving—he’s a decade-long developer who also composes new-age piano in his spare time.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Queen's University