Chris Brown
Reader In Computer Science at University of St Andrews
St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Brown is a Reader in Computer Science at the University of St Andrews with 15+ years of experience researching and building tools that make parallel systems more programmable. He leads EU Horizon 2020 work packages on semi-automated refactoring to introduce parallelism into C++ and has steered both academic teams and a spin-out product, ParaFormance, from research prototype toward commercial traction. His technical roots span functional languages (Haskell, Erlang), systems programming (C/C++), and tooling for concurrency, complemented by strong teaching and dissemination skills including supervising PhD students and delivering international talks. Chris blends rigorous theoretical grounding—PhD-level expertise in logic and mathematics—with practical system architecture and software development experience. He is comfortable translating complex research into usable developer tools and investor-ready pitches, a trait reflected in his dual academic and CTO roles. Based in St Andrews, he quietly bridges cutting-edge parallel-programming research with industry-facing productisation.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (hons), Computing Science, BSc (hons), Computing Science at Northumbria UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Kent
English, cantonese (basic)
Github Skills (7)
refactoring10
servant10
ghc9
hackage9
cabal9
haskell8
computer-science1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chrisbrown1982/pi-par
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
chrisbrown1982/letrec
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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