Chris Dryden
Senior Software Engineer at Overleaf
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Dryden is a Senior Software Engineer based in the UK with over a decade of experience delivering data-heavy, mission-critical products across fintech, edtech, and research analytics. He blends full-stack development, large-scale data pipelines, and recent work integrating LLMs and retrieval workflows to build features that have real user impact. Chris has led teams and shipping practices as a Ruby Team Lead and Lead Insights Engineer, and he won a company-wide AI hackathon for an LLM-enhanced research analysis app. He cares deeply about how teams work—improving delivery, tightening product feedback loops, and creating calm, productive environments for engineers. Pragmatic and curious, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and teaching experience that helps translate complex technical work into usable product outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts, Geography, Master of Arts, Geography at The University of Edinburgh
French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (28)
development-machine6
react5
ktor5
java5
vscode4
vscode-extension4
template-engine4
kotlin4
dom4
sql3
visual-studio3
html3
visual-studio-code3
bash2
shell2
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GideonBrimleaf/stimulus-starter
Jun 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:7 PRs, 7 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 6 months
GideonBrimleaf/fate_character_generator
May 2020 - Nov 2023
Web app to create and store Character sheets for Fate Accelerated
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 47 pushes in 3 years 6 months
reactfate-acceleratedacceleratedfatecharacter-sheets
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