Summary
Chris Dennis is a Software Development Manager based in London with 12 years of hands-on front-end experience, currently leading engineering efforts at Tesco. He combines deep expertise in JavaScript, React, Angular, Node and build tooling with a pragmatic focus on performance, accessibility and scalable component libraries used across 200+ applications. Chris has driven high-impact refactors and rewrites that influenced billions in revenue while defining roadmaps, improving dev cycles and mentoring engineers. Prior roles at Rightmove, Yoti and Yieldify show a consistent track record of shipping prototypes to production using modern CI/CD and cloud tooling. He also brings a creative streak—building web games and presenting internal knowledge-sharing sessions—which informs his product-led approach to developer experience. Collected academic training in web development (first-class BSc) underpins a career that balances architecture, craftsmanship and team leadership.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons), Web Development, 1st, Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons), Web Development, 1st at SAE