Chris Barrett
Principal Software Developer at Tracksuit
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolChris Barrett is a Principal Software Developer based in Auckland with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native systems and leading compact, high-performing teams. He combines hands-on engineering (TypeScript, NodeJS, AWS, Terraform) with practical leadership—preferring to "lead from the trenches" to coach developers, improve CI/CD, and streamline delivery. His background spans startup CTO roles to senior engineering and team lead positions where he shipped microservices, data pipelines (Kafka/Spark), and improved developer experience through automation and environment tooling. Chris also steps into business continuity roles when needed, having run operational recovery and IT consolidation for small companies, showing a knack for pragmatic systems and processes outside pure engineering. He’s known for driving measurable improvements—such as cutting CI test times by 80% and empowering teams to own releases—while keeping teams happy and productive. An accidental programmer who now wears glasses, he pairs an engineer’s curiosity with a strong operational instinct.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachel of Music (BMus), Music, Bachel of Music (BMus), Music at The University of Auckland
Stackoverflow
3,393reputation
139kreached
60answers
2questions
emacs
top-5%
Github Skills (120)
vim10
spacemacs10
refactoring10
haskell10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
hackage10
emacs10
kubernetes10
magit10
ghc10
zeplin10
emacs-lisp9
elisp9
calc9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chrisbarrett/spacemacs-layers
Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 333 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 4 months
dotfilesspacemacs-configurationlayersspacemacs
chrisbarrett/spacemacs
Jul 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:29 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 2 months
ansiblespacemacsnoticeconfiglayers
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