Chris Bannister
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Bannister is an experienced Integration Developer based in London with 18 years of hands-on experience building and migrating enterprise integrations, backend systems, and commissions tooling. He combines deep SQL and stored-procedure expertise with practical Perl scripting, WebMethods ESB integration, and CRM platform work (Siebel, SFDC), having led both development and third-line support efforts. At Quadient he owned in-house commissions systems and cross-functional delivery with business SMEs, and earlier roles show a consistent track record of migrating legacy tooling to more supported platforms. Chris also contributes to open-source database tooling, improving the GoCQL driver for Apache Cassandra by hardening connection handling and adding consistency-level features—demonstrating an ability to optimize low-level database interactions as well as high-level business processes.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Data Engineering, Data Engineering at NorthcodersLipson Community College
English
Github Skills (5)
database-management10
go10
cassandra10
network-programming9
nosql9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cassandra-gocql-driver
Mar 2014 - Aug 2020
GoCQL Driver for Apache Cassandra®
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 856 commits, 799 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the GoCQL driver for Apache Cassandra. Their contributions included fixing formatting issues, enhancing connection management by calling `HandleError` on connection closures, and incorporating features like the `LocalOne` consistency level. The user demonstrated skills in database interaction, handling network timeouts, and optimizing the driver's interaction with the Cassandra database.
cassandradrivergocqlgodatabase
Zariel/containers
May 2024 - Sep 2025
Contributions:39 PRs, 47 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 4 months
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