Chris Barr
Senior Software Engineer at Paddle
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Barr is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years’ experience building and maintaining large, complex codebases, currently engineering at Paddle out of St Albans. He brings deep PHP and Python expertise, practical AWS and Linux knowledge, and a strong track record of shipping through CI/CD in cross-functional teams. His background spans product-focused startups and scale-stage platforms—including Mendeley and Headliner.io—where he focused on backend systems and reliable delivery. Comfortable both debugging legacy systems and introducing incremental automation, he’s as much at home optimizing deployment pipelines as writing maintainable application code.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons, Media Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons, Media Technology at Oxford Brookes University
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Github Skills (89)
amazon-sns10
logger10
api9
cinch9
php-library9
twilio9
php9
arduino9
logging9
twitter-api9
amazon9
twitter8
laravel-authentication8
esp328
twitter-oauth8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chrisbarr/AmazonSNS-PHP-API
Nov 2011 - Apr 2018
Contributions:9 releases, 103 commits, 12 PRs in 6 years 6 months
apiphpamazonphp-wrappersns
chrisbarr/mandrill-mailer
Mar 2015 - Apr 2022
SwiftMailer-like interface for sending emails using the Mandrill Messages API
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 2 months
apiemailemailssendingmandrill
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