Chris Coombs
Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Coombs is a Solutions Architect with 11 years of experience specialising in AWS, Serverless and DevSecOps, currently helping customers at Amazon Web Services to deliver cost‑effective, serviceful architectures. He combines hands‑on full‑stack engineering with practical cloud strategy, drawing on prior principal and platform leadership roles to accelerate delivery via Agile practices. A confident communicator and public speaker with legal training from Cambridge, he excels at leading and upskilling globally distributed teams through workshops and pair programming. Active in the local tech community as an AWS User Group co‑organiser, he balances broad architectural thinking with pragmatic implementation details that reduce risk and cost. At home in Melbourne, he’s also the sort of “IT guy, husband and dad” who keeps engineering work grounded in real-world priorities.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BVC, BVC at Nottingham Trent UniversityLaw BA (Hons), Law BA (Hons) at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (200)
web-application10
aws-iot10
aws-serverless10
serverless10
dynamodb10
points10
amplify-js10
amazon10
aws-fargate10
twitch10
amazon-ecs10
python10
amplify10
aurora10
payment10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
chriscoombs/s3-signed-urls
Feb 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 9 months
chriscoombs/example-function
Dec 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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