Chris Brown
Lead Engineer at Architextures
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Brown is a Lead Engineer based in Glasgow with 13 years of experience building and scaling web and e-commerce platforms, currently leading a cross-functional team on a fashion-focused global storefront. He combines deep PHP and modern JavaScript expertise (Node and React) with hands-on leadership—growing teams, hiring, mentoring, and still shipping production code daily. His background includes designing API tooling and integrations with high-profile partners, search and messaging stacks (Solr/ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ), and driving guild-level improvements that align engineering with product goals. Known for turning ambiguous requirements into pragmatic, competitive features, he brings both the operational discipline of running client sites and the strategic eye to scale teams from small squads to 45-person orgs. An early developer-turned-leader, Chris blends commercial empathy from retail management with technical rigor from an Edinburgh Computer Science degree.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (90)
validation10
cakephp9
rapid9
rest-api9
refactoring9
rector9
rapid-development9
php9
mvc-framework9
form-builder9
recurring8
psr-78
nette8
automated-refactoring8
mvc8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisDBrown/littleBLUbook
Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:33 PRs, 28 pushes, 35 branches in 2 years
ChrisDBrown/chrisdbrown.co.uk
Jul 2017 - Aug 2024
Personal site built with vuejs
Contributions:63 PRs, 82 pushes, 53 branches in 7 years 2 months
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