Chris Blyth
Build & Deployment Manager at 15below
Lewes, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Blyth is a Build & Deployment Manager with 13 years of hands-on experience designing fully automated CI/CD pipelines and championing automation from commit to production. A seasoned .NET developer fluent in C#, F#, and VB.NET, he combines deep build-tool expertise (Paket, FAKE, Cake) with practical deployment experience using Octopus Deploy. He regularly contributes to notable open-source projects—improving Paket, FAKE and Cake—and has a track record of adding robust test coverage and build-order reliability. Chris also builds niche automation such as Slack-based chatbots and has implemented VOIP solutions using CCXML/VXML, reflecting a taste for integrating systems across domains. Based in Lewes, he focuses on high-performance backend stability and volume testing to prove production readiness, and documents his projects and OSS contributions on his website.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BScHons, BScHons at University of Brighton
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Github Skills (33)
unit-testing10
nuget10
dependency-management10
develop10
teamcity10
web-application10
testing10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
user-interface10
android-development10
java10
asp-net10
javas10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
chrislacy/TweetLanes
Jun 2013 - Mar 2014
Tweet Lanes for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:438 commits, 6 comments, 6 issues in 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Android application, focusing on bug fixes, UI improvements, and feature enhancements related to notifications, image loading, and the compose feature. They made significant changes to the application's internal logic and functionality, including improving the accuracy of the display of status updates and the handling of image display. The contributions indicate a focus on improving the user experience and addressing functional issues within the Android application.
kotlinandroidtwitter
cake-build/cake
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
:cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the Cake build automation system by implementing features related to handling TeamCity properties files, including loading them as key/value stores and adding support for retrieving branch information. They also wrote unit tests to validate the correct loading and processing of these properties files. The user's work involved modifying existing classes and adding new test cases, demonstrating a focus on extending the functionality and ensuring the reliability of the build process within the Cake framework.
cake-buildbuild-automation-toolc-sharpdotnetcorenunit
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